Scanning and processing film

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I don’t do my own ‘wet processing’ anymore, so when I send the film away I always also ask for scans. I know this is more expensive than home processing, but it’s a choice for convenience and, frankly, consistent results. I send my work to Exposure film lab whose service I find excellent. They scan with a Fuji Frontier SP-3000 or Noritsu …

DNG files and White Balance

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Following a friendly debate on Facebook about the impact of White Balance camera settings on Leica’s DNG files, I did a very quick ‘real world’ test. Normally, the White balance setting is reckoned not to alter  RAW capture, although all cameras process the RAW date to create usually proprietary files – e.g. Nikon creates NEFs. Leica however uses Adobe’s DNG …