I found a hippie in the country who would develop and scan my negatives, but here's the thing, I'm very new to analog photography (new to photography in general, actually) and I needed to know if his offer was a load of crap or not.In this case, he would develop any of my negatives, whether black and white, orthochromatic, c-41 or ecn22, for the price of 5.73 US dollars and would scan them for 2.50 US dollars, that's for each roll, i.e., 36 exposures.I won't know the real quality of the photos unless I test them, but these prices make me very suspicious of this crazy guy.I don't know if it's better for me to develop the negatives at home (if that interferes with the quality of the photo or not) or if I should just send everything to him and that's it.
I forgot to mention, but the negative scan is at 24MP (that's what he said). Now I don't know if he would photograph the negatives with another camera and "develop" them, or if he would use a scanner like a Plustek.
>>4496532Just give him a roll of snapshits and see how he does. It's cheap. Who cares? Post results and we can tell you how he did.
>>4496533Scanning with a real camera and a macro lens is generally better than cheap scanners.
I asked him for some examples of photos taken using the method we're discussing here, and he sent me these.
>>4496576>>4496577>>4496578Hard to tell if those were properly exposed to begin with, so some of the issues with these might be scan issues but more likely in-camera issues. At the very least, it's cheap. Just send a couple rolls. They don't look to have crazy color shifts, so at least they're getting developed ok.
>>4496576Ask him to send you a scan including the film borders. If the barcode and text on the borders is sharp he's probably doing a good job. Anything else is impossible to tell through WhatsApp + 4chan compression
