So I got a flatbed photo scanner of my own a few weeks ago, and as I'm rescanning many of my negatives, I'm learning something:
So many things about my pics that I had attributed to the film is actually just a product of how they scanned them at the lab.
Like, my rolls of Lomo CN 800 came out *very* grainy and washed out. I wrote it off as being a cheap film.
Upon scanning them, it seems like the lab tech had the contrast and saturation way down, and the gain way up. I think I was seeing more scanner noise than grain.
Kodak UltraMax is supposed to be a punchy film, but my skies almost always turned out blown out, and my highlights kinda bland. I chalked it off to it being a consumer film with less latitude.
Nah, with a little tweaking, I'm able to pull a lot of colour out of those highlights.
Carl Tessier