Trial By Fire

So, I've been working on this today. I recently bought a Pentax ME Super to replace one of my first cameras, as it unfortunately it died a few years ago. Ran a film through it, developed it Friday and the film was ruined. Almost complete light leak from somewhere. Ran another film through it quickly, wandering round the flat. I then deved it, and thankfully it came out OK, so the camera was good. Either I messed up or the film was crap. Who knows.

 

Anyway, I've been learning how to scan film all day, by trial and error. I bought vuescan a few months ago and while it made some good scans, it also seemed to struggle giving me anything good out of this film. The Silverfast demo seemed to render the scan better, but I can't afford to spend out on that, so have to make do with what I have.

 

This is the only half decent image out of the whole film and yes, my feet are meant to be in shot! Exposure X5 also helped get this scan looking a bit better.

 

Still lots to learn it would seem.

 

Pentax ME Super,

28mm f/2.8 Pentax SMC-A Lense

Hp5+ @ 400 in DD-X 1+4 for 9 mins

 

Canoscan 8800f, Vuescan x64

Done