We’re on a mission to make film scanning/digitization faster and more fun. Here Abe shows off the new auto-crop and auto-rotation in FilmLab Desktop 3.3, which makes it faster than ever to go from raw scans to color photos. #filmlabapp #shootfılm #filmscanning #kodakfilm #35mmfilmphotography
✨ Ever wondered how film photos go from those orange-y negatives to full colour digitals you see in your gallery? Here’s a peek into our process:
📸 After our pals at Jack’s Lab develop the rolls, we bring the negatives home and start scanning. Instead of using a flatbed scanner, we use camera scanning — basically setting up one of our digital cameras with a macro lens to photograph each frame.
Why?
– We get to be super hands-on with the process
– It speeds things up so you get your photos quicker
– It saves us a bit of money (so we can buy more film 👀)
💻 Once the negatives are photographed, we run them through an app called FilmLab, which converts them into positives. Then we do a few final tweaks before they’re ready to be delivered in your gallery.
It’s a bit nerdy, but we love it — and it keeps us connected to the whole journey of film, from shooting to seeing the final image.
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The FilmLab Spring Sale ends tonight! Save 20% on a FilmLab subscription or lifetime license.
How do lifetime licenses work, you ask? You pay once up front, which helps finance our work on FilmLab. Then you get all future updates for free. It’s a win-win!
A FilmLab license included both FilmLab Desktop 3, the current FilmLab 2 for iOS, and the upcoming FilmLab 3 for iOS and Android. We’ll have more to share on the new mobile apps soon!
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FilmLab 3.2 beta is 1 out, and it includes fixes for some pixel-level rendering bugs that sometimes showed up when exporting images in FilmLab 3.1. Swipe to see a zoomed in pixel level view before and after. In this sample you can see two things we fixed: “tearing” with visible seams when an image was slightly rotated, and dark spots showing up in highlights. There’s also an overall reduction in color noise thanks to an improved raw processing algorithm.
