Kodak Tri-X 400

I don’t have much to say about this roll of film, other than the fact that it’s a negative from 2024 that I actually scanned twice.

The first time was likely around the time I realized my film scanner was truly broken. At that point, I was so frustrated that I didn’t even bother uploading the scans. Looking back at them now, they weren’t actually that bad. Two years later, I had obviously forgotten that these negatives had already been scanned, so I re-scanned them with my shiny new setup.

The new setup is essentially a mask to hold the negative over a light source—in my case, a very modest Android tablet running an app that displays a solid white screen. I then just shoot the negative with my Canon R6 and a secondhand macro lens I managed to buy for a very decent price.

Out of the box, the results are certainly less “interesting” than the punchy, high-contrast JPEGs produced by the dedicated film scanner’s CCD sensor, but this is a much more reliable and upgradable setup.