Film Lab Scans vs Scanning Film at Home

This week, I discuss why I began scanning my own film negatives instead of having them scanned at a lab and the amazing results you can achieve by doing it yourself! I'll show you the scanning and processing of 3 images using my Epson V800 flatbed scanner, Silverfast, and Adobe Lightroom. These techniques will be useful no matter which scanning and image editing applications you may be using. Please let me know what you think in the comments below and thanks for watching!
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[@felixespana2004]

Hello Matthew good night. I am a digital shooter, but really liked your film editing, and the film vibe too. In the portraits, specially in the restaurant picture you made your wife justice. I think portraits are the tough ones. Greetings from Chile 🇨🇱, I will suscribe.

[@MatthewArringtonphoto]

I just realized that the title got cut off when I changed my export settings. My apologies!

[@edscannell1019]

Great video Matthew. Can I ask did you export the negatives out of silverfast as raw files to process in LR?

[@MatthewArringtonphoto]

Thanks, Ed! Good question! I export them as uncompressed tifs out of Silverfast. That way I have as much data as possible when processing in Lightroom.

[@edscannell1019]

@@MatthewArringtonphoto thanks Matthew, I’ve been using silverfast but only to scan as DNG files for NLP. I’m definitely going to try out your approach as your images look really good 👍🏻