Hello.
I'm an absolute beginner at this. I have a Yashica 124g. I have rolls of 120 film I need to develop.
Because I'm just starting out I was going to leave everything to the lab...but then I saw how much it's going to cost.
How does everyone else here manage? Would love to know how you approach this.
I have been told to try Peak Imaging and yes, they are quite reasonable. But I am not sure how to proceed.
What would you chaps suggest? Remembering these are my first rolls so will probably be bad (light, composition, camera shake, everything)
ask Peak to develop&scan, then decide if I want to print any?
or just develop and then scan myself? I asked on another forum something similar and everyone seemed dead against scanning myself - that it was a tedious and time consuming process.
This might sound like a dumb question and it probably is but . .. : does a print from a negative look that different than a print from a scanned image?
In this digital age I wanted to get back to basics, i love the look of MF photos on Instagram for example...but I am already asking about how to digitise my photographs so I can share / send / post them. Am i destroying the qualities I admire so much in MF photography by scanning them? (Of course, the ones I have seen online are amazing, but they have also been through the scanner and they look so rich, subtle, layered - exactly why I bought the Yashica in the first place.
Thank you in advance for any advice.
DSJ
I'm an absolute beginner at this. I have a Yashica 124g. I have rolls of 120 film I need to develop.
Because I'm just starting out I was going to leave everything to the lab...but then I saw how much it's going to cost.
How does everyone else here manage? Would love to know how you approach this.
I have been told to try Peak Imaging and yes, they are quite reasonable. But I am not sure how to proceed.
What would you chaps suggest? Remembering these are my first rolls so will probably be bad (light, composition, camera shake, everything)
ask Peak to develop&scan, then decide if I want to print any?
or just develop and then scan myself? I asked on another forum something similar and everyone seemed dead against scanning myself - that it was a tedious and time consuming process.
This might sound like a dumb question and it probably is but . .. : does a print from a negative look that different than a print from a scanned image?
In this digital age I wanted to get back to basics, i love the look of MF photos on Instagram for example...but I am already asking about how to digitise my photographs so I can share / send / post them. Am i destroying the qualities I admire so much in MF photography by scanning them? (Of course, the ones I have seen online are amazing, but they have also been through the scanner and they look so rich, subtle, layered - exactly why I bought the Yashica in the first place.
Thank you in advance for any advice.
DSJ