On Friday, February 19, 2021 at 8:32:47 AM UTC-5, Alan Browne wrote:
On 2021-02-17 16:34, -hh wrote:

Exactly, and I'm already on my second film scanner that's been grossly
underutilized because my soul's already been crushed - twice - by the amount
of time it eats up to "do it right".

Two thoughts,

1) If you're scanning images from the past, then the workflow is
important. Pre-scan, settings, scan. Tedious, but it will get you
there. If you capture the full range of exposure over the widest range
of bits, then you have all you need to do colour/tone etc. in Photoslop
or whatever environment.

Legacy stuff can depend a huge amount on condition which sucks up touch labor.

I wrote about this a few years ago here ... the Pre-scan can include dry & wet cleaning
steps, demounting to enable that, remounting to fit better in the digitizing device, etc.
There's limited opportunity for labor saving through economies-of-scale batching.

2) If you're scanning 'current work' and your technical abilities with
shooting film are decent, then the scanning work is far less due to
consistency (same film types used often, proper exposure, etc.).

Sure. Recent stuff is more amenable and the trade-off is deciding if to pay someone
to do it (so that it actually gets done) versus burning the touch labor one's self.

The crush here is less time for photography and that's mostly digital in
any case...

As well as competing against other priorities of non-photographic nature(s).

FWIW, one thing that I have accomplished on photo interests this month has been to
pull out and recharge my strobe batteries, to prevent them from dying from natural
discharge from months & months of non-use.

-hh