The Online Photographer: Why My Gigabyte Film Scans Might Not Be Good Enough

Last week, in some comments to Mike’s “Touch Once” post, I mentioned that I was on my fourth round scanning some of my film and that re-scanning my film seems to be something I have to do about every five years despite my best efforts to make scans so good that I could never imagine needing better ones. (Apparently, my wildest imaginings have a tangible expiration date.) This, of course, raised questions about how good a film scan really needed to be, and so here we are.