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  Will Hotton

  I like this picture. Gives me the warm and fuzzies. Is there a film scanner you would recommend?

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    Paul Martin

    @shutterbug2. I use Valoi easy 35. It’s the most easiest and best negative scanner I’ve ever used. So small and compact also. It makes flat bed scanners look outdated I would highly recommend it especially if you shoot 35mm.

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    Will Hotton

    @kenopsia just looked that up and that looks great and affordable. Thank you for the reply. Yes I have an old Fed 1 Ukrainian copy of and old Leica and a voigtlander bessa r3a rangefinder. Plus I like disposables. Soon I’d like to look into home color processing

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    Paul Martin

    @shutterbug2 I’ve only ever done bnw development at uni. But here in Bangkok it’s so cheap to get film developed!. £1 for 36 negatives and an extra 50p for each push!! And all done in 1hr plus you have loads of labs to choose from. Back in uk it was an expensive nightmare!

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    Will Hotton

    @kenopsia Wow that’s incredible! Here in the states it’s so expensive. I grew up shooting BW with my father and we processed and made prints in our upstairs bathroom all the time. Everything from paper negs in old box cameras and deardorff’s to pinhole to medium format and 35mm. He never quite got into the digital era but he uses it like Polaroid for test shots lol

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    Will Hotton

    @kenopsia It would be nice to live where you live especially since you have labs all over the place. I worked at one of the last labs around here as a boy and it’s been closed down for 20 years or so. Nothing local to me

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    Paul Martin

    @shutterbug2 That brought back memories of my old dark days. Ilford paper and struggling in the dark to get the film on the spool lol. Yer I have a friend in US that’s shoots film also and it’s a 10 days turn around to get his film developed!. But it’s same in the UK, it’s just over here, because a lot of people still shoot film and think it’s kinda trendy.