Helpful Tips & Links

Kodak Ultramax 400 | Scanned on Pakon F135+ | Inverted in Chemvert
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Tips & Tricks

General scanning tips to start with the best scans for inversion.

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Links

Products, services, and learning resources we love.

Artcraft Chemicals

Artcraft is a family-owned business started over 30 years ago. We cater to the B/W alternative Photo Community, providing high quality, high purity photo chemicals to Businesses, Museum’s, Colleges and Universities, as well as Professional Photographer’s and Hobbyists.



Photographer’s Formulary

For the creative photographer, darkroom enthusiast, and professional photographer The Formulary provides options for photographic processes you have heard about in easy to use kits and chemistry.



Automated Film Developing

The automatic development systems for sale are way out of my pay grade. No worries, there must be many DIY projects online. I just wanted to pour in the chemicals, push a button, and do other stuff until the timer buzzed.



Memphis Film Lab

Simple / Quality /Film Mail-In Film Developing at Affordable Prices. Cleveland, Ohio



Processing ECN-2 film, in ECN-2 process, at home

Proper ECN-2 processing, assuming you’re wanting to process less than 1000 feet at a time, is uhh.. inaccessible. I know of no labs in the US that will process it properly for short 36 exposure rolls. The best I know of is some labs will handle remjet for you and then process it in C-41. So, why not process it properly at home though?



Phoenix Slides

Phoenix Slides is a fast full-screen slideshow program/image browser, for flipping through folders or disks full of images. Phoenix Slides also does lossless JPEG transformations and can display EXIF data. It runs on macOS 10.13 or later.



VueScan

We reverse engineered over 7400 scanners and included built in drivers in VueScan so you can keep using the scanner you already have. Download VueScan and start scanning in 60 seconds.



Valoi Easy35

Our latest product, the VALOI easy35, takes camera scanning more accessible with a new form factor. Instead of a copy stand based approach, the easy35 attaches to the front of your macro lens and has a built in light and replaceable holders.



Metering for Film

A lot of people worry about their exposure when they start out shooting film. Not being able to see your results until you get your scans back and learning to trust your own abilities instead of instantly reviewing an image or histogram on the back of your camera takes time and getting used to.



KODAK Color Negative Chemicals Make a Triumphant Return!

We’re thrilled to share exciting news with our SilvergrainClassics community: KODAK Color Negative photo chemicals are officially back in production! Thanks to a collaboration between Photo Systems Inc. (PSI) and CineStill Inc., and with the support of Eastman Kodak Co., the iconic KODAK Color Negative chemicals — formerly known as KODAK FLEXICOLOR — are available once again.