Why is it so difficult to get film developed well, and scanned into a digital file at a resolution comparable to my dslr images, so I can plug them into my work flow?
I've been sending my rolls by mail to Reed Photo in Colorado. For about $22/roll, they scan at high resolution (like approx. 10Mb) in tiff format. But I have to pay shipping round trip in addition.
Many of the photolabs I used to use are no longer doing film processing, or the scans are either low resolution only, or too expensive (per frame scan).
Recently I tried Cameraland in midtown they were ok. $10 for develop and scan to CD only at 1200x1800 jpg only. The scans were not the cleanest (lint and such visible). Ready next day, but wasn't ready when I went by at the time promised.
DOI camera midtown was also $10 for same resolution but they included small thumbnails and the scans were clean, on time. I heard they also have a 1hour (or rush) option. When needed I guess they are a good option.
Lomography store is my current favorite, at $14 their scan is clean and, for $2 they will add prints, or $2 for cross processing. The above two shops will not cross process. For a little extra they also did tiff format for me, but at 1200x1800 tiff makes the file size about double from the jpgs.
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