Ektar 100, The Changing Season AND a little SURPRISE! 

I gotta say I'm really enjoying the longform stroll/drive with you. And seeing the subjects through a color film still AND a crisp digital cinema camera is a real treat.

1 Hour video, you absolute legend, so nice to watch! I love the more rambly and chill video without super many cuts alot.

buddy, i love the hour episode.. I'd personally throw my ring in the hat for a vote for another!

If you got water marks on your film I would try a different lab. I usually ask my lab to keep the negatived uncut and unsleeved just to minimize the amount of handling. I used to digitize all my film with a mirrorless camera but have since got my hands on a Nikon coolscan 5000. With a slight modification you can scan entire rolls with it. I still have to edit the photos in light room though.

Loved the longer video. Keep them coming

The lab I work at uses a Noritsu HS-1800 and Noritsu S2. I gotta say they produce some beautiful scans, and they offer a decent amount of editing control in the program itself. I usually don’t have the need to import to Lightroom to make further adjustments unless I get picky lol. The HS-1800 can also scan super fast!

Damn the Ektar goes so hard with the fall colours. So nice. And good to have you back dude, was missing your videos.

Good to see you back man! Colour was a great change. Also just watched the Vivian Maier movie and man she was amazing. She had some excellent work and the fact that she just made photos for herself and no one else. No IG no nothing. Just enjoying the process.

Whew, you’re alive and well. Should let me know next time you’re in San Jose. I’ll buy you a drink. 🍻

These hour long videos are extra crispy Very nice 👌🏽

This was awesome! Your stroll series have been among my favorites as I start out on film. I’m about to do my first roll of Ilford HP5, but I’m going to have to check out Ektar 100.

Great to see you back my dude

I really enjoy your videos. So laid back & chill and those photos were gorgeous! 😊

Hell yeah dude. Digging the loooooong form content!

Great to have you back!

Keep it up, dude! Loved the episode! ;D

38:29 Wow. THAT paid off!

This flew by! Good to have ya back

Now I'm inspired to walk through my neighborhood and capture fall

Still watching the rest of the video. So long I had to break it up between work! Those falling leaves at around 39 minutes were amazing. Never used ektar but I’m out to buy it now. It looked amazing!

Lesssgoooo

takes me 6 minutes to scan a roll hand feeding through 3d printed masks. As far as dust and water spotting goes, I process all my own film so I have total control, but I rinse in tap water after fixing, then drop the film in a pitcher of photo flow, and pull it out from one end, and hang to dry. I give it about 2 hours to dry then straight to scan, cut and sleeve. I rarely have any dust with this process. I'd be really concerned if my lab couldn't provide negatives without water spots, I'm not even sure how that's possible with color minilab processing.

39:55 For 135 format with the regular 24x36mm frames I do not bother with camera scanning every roll. Do yourself a solid and get yourself a Pacific Image/Reflecta RPS 10000. It can batch-scan entire uncut 35mm rolls frame by frame, the Pacific Image brand will ship it with Silverfast, but I prefer Vuescan. In Vuescan I batch scan an entire roll of C41 in 64bit RAW DNG which imports directly into Lightroom with Negative Lab Pro. The scanner resolution is 10000dpi nominal, but the real resolution is 5000dpi. You end up with very good 24-ish MP RAW files which also have the infrared layer preserved, so you can use dust/scratch removal in Silverfast/Vuescan on the digital files any time later in the process. If I need a higher resolution scan of a particular frame later, I just re-scan that frame using my mirrorless scanning setup, ending up with an 80MP file. I rarely need that though.

Put the baseplate on *before* winding. I know, I know, it takes faith but I swear…

For dust I blow the film before inserting to the carrier and while I'm scanning literally right before hitting the shutter I give it another blow. I have one hand on the rocket blower and one hand operates the carrier / shoots camera with cable release.

I just watched that doc on vivian Maier too. A very talented but very quirky person. Who speaks in a fake french accent their whole life?