Ancient history. 1986. Me working at the Australian Tourist Commission in NTC, office with a view of the Empire State Building. Crocodile Dundee had just come out, and the Yanks were scrambling to come Down Under. My boss got me to record the answering machine message directing people to a 1-800 number to have a free copy of the "Aussie Holiday Book" mailed to them. I got paid to spend my day answering questions on the phone about travel to Australia.
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This post should have been done before now but the week has been bonkers and I’ve been flat out.
I’ve been looking after avid music photographer Scott Johnson @45jukebox45 for quite a few years. We often exchange stories of photography and gigs we’ve seen, our catch ups are equal parts yarns and getting photography stuff done!
When Scott told me he was making a book of his photography and asked if I could give him a hand digitising film, I was super stoked to help.
We opted for camera scans of Scott’s film archive. Camera scanning involves photographing the negatives and transparencies with the high resolution Nikon Z9 and 1:1 Macro lens. A dedicated film digitisation rig is used to keep the film nice and flat for the photo.
The beauty of this method is really its speed and efficiency. We were able to shoot through a decade of curated concert shots in no time. This keeps the process super affordable.
The results are excellent, as we are able to shoot RAW photos of the film, we can use modern RAW processing techniques to extract a huge dynamic range. Scott tells in the book how we managed to bring back highlights that he thought were gone.
35mm has its limits, especially older film but the book in a grand coffee table format looks great, in no way let down by the digitising.
If you’re interested to see, I have a copy of Scott’s book ‘Lucky Man’ on the bench out the front.
PJ :)
