I have a medium format camera, fully mechanical and it takes square format 120 film Its a Zeiss Ikon and it was made in the 1930s.
I have used it a few times and had issues with loading film. It is difficult to know when the film is properly loaded, but I am getting there. Also setting the exposure is a bit of guess work, I have an exposure meter and that helps. I also have difficulty focusing and not all the exp[osures come out as I expected!!
I have sent the exposed films off to Hippo in Burnley for developing and have tried various formats. They can sen a cd with the exposures digitised or send the digitised exposures via WeTransfer. Either way they always send the exposed negatives back.
I have digitised these myself and saved them as TIFF files. the ones that come back via WeTransfer are jpg.
Here are some of the results I have had from scanning the negatives as TIFF files and then developing in Photoshop.
Just recently I have sent off a film that has been developed and the jpgs have been transfered via WeTransfer. I am still awaiting the negatives, which I will digitise to TIFF files. My aim is to see the difference between developing the jpg file from Hippo vs the Tiff file Idigitise myself.
Here are some jpgs which I have proprocessed:
when I get the negatives I shall scan these as tiff files and then process them again to make a comparison.
I did that but the files were smaller than those from the developer? I shall have to investigate how to scan them at a larger size.
Here I have scanned as a Tiff at 1200 dpi and then edited in Elements.
