by Tim Parkin | Jan 7, 2025 | Testimonial, Transparency
I’ve recently begun archiving negatives from a whole host of years in photography when my most recent scanning service stopped trading. I’d been searching for a replacement drum scanning service for the past year when I found these guys. During my research I came...
by Tim Parkin | Oct 19, 2024 | Testimonial, Transparency
My work is a combination of painting, sculpture and photography, a form of ‘constructed photography’: assembled tableaux of objects, which are then painted and photographed. My favoured method of capturing these constructed photographic artworks is to...
by Tim Parkin | Jun 9, 2024 | Testimonial, Transparency
I have been photographing motorsport since the early 1980s primarily using 35mm slide film as well as 120 roll film using a rather cumbersome Pentax 67. When I decided to create a book of my photography it was inevitable that many of my images would come from this...
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 | 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...
