![]() In an ideal world, scanning should be easy. #Noritsu film scanner softwareIt’s Unnecessarily Confusing (and the Software is Terrible) And at the end of the day, I’d much rather be out shooting a classic film camera than watching an Epson V550 gurgle its way through half a roll of film. It’s easy to find something enjoyable at every single stage of making an image on film, but conspicuously difficult to find pleasure in scanning. It’s an admittedly surface-level argument, but I think it’s a good place to start my complaining. Even the cream-of-the-crop Noritsu LS-600 is about as visually interesting as a late ’90s Toyota Camry, an equally effective but bland machine. They’re boxy, monochrome, and just plain boring. Scanners themselves are hardly attractive devices. It’s about as interesting as filing taxes or accounting, which is probably why most of us prefer to pay somebody else do it. ![]() Scanners simply convert a photographic negative (or positive) into a digital file. Scanning, on the other hand, is not cool. And when you print, you’re playing God and throwing light through a cool looking enlarger to recreate a moment of time on paper. When you develop film, you’re mixing up chemicals like a mad scientist and using all manner of beakers and tanks to make an image magically appear. When you take a picture, you’re freezing time with a camera, a device that is at once a feat of engineering and a symbol of history. Think about it every other step of the photographic process is pretty cool, or at least interesting. Scanning film is the least interesting step in the film photography flow. ![]() I’ve got five talking points to prove it, too. ![]() It’s not “mildly uncomfortable,” or just “an annoying step of the process,” or even a “necessary evil.” It straight up f**king sucks, and we all know it. ![]()
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