by Tim Parkin | May 4, 2024 | Testimonial, Transparency
Just upstream from Stockghyll force near Ambleside are a series of falls, including this one. One rainy day I took a Linhof Technika with a Grandagon and some Portra 400 in a 6×9 roll film back, also brought along a Leica M240 with a Summilux. Getting the film...
by Tim Parkin | Apr 29, 2024 | artwork, Film Type, Testimonial
The Grand Tour illustrations In 1987 I produced a series of seven panoramic illustrations for Thames Television’s historical drama documentary ‘The Grand Tour’. The original panoramas were shot as a series of pans on a rostrum camera using 16mm film. The original...
by Tim Parkin | Feb 17, 2024 | Testimonial, Transparency
I have been shooting slide film for 8 years and I have always used an Epson v850 for my scans. I have always considered the scans from the v850 good/adequate especially when the slide is accurately exposed (not so much when it’s not). I recently sent some slides...
by Tim Parkin | Jan 18, 2024 | Film Type, Testimonial, Transparency
Here is a sample of a scan that was returned to me from an inexperienced scanner operator. He didn’t notice the flaw in the image where one section was out of alignment. This is how I learned the hard way that it’s a waste of time and money to try and save...
by Tim Parkin | Dec 15, 2023 | Black and White, Testimonial
The quality of scans that came back is excellent, and given the scale that one particular negative was being enlarged to (300x600cm), Tim was incredibly helpful in finding the best technical process for achieving this at the highest quality. Huge...
by Tim Parkin | Oct 31, 2023 | Colour Negative, Testimonial
I have worked with most London labs in the last few years and used all sorts of scanners and techniques (including hand printing), and none come close to the results I get from Tim’s drum scans. I recently compared scans from 4×5 film scanned on a Hasselblad...
