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I scan with a Konica Minolta elite 5400 and vuescan. I do decide after prescans if i'm going to do a full scan. Scanning negatives is really a tedious task and for me it takes a lot of the fun out of photographing with film. Often i wonder why i still shoot 35mm film and not just buy a sony a7 or a 6x7 medium format camera.
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I use a loupe / light table when picking up slide film from the lab. Love it.
At home I do preview scans that take a couple seconds; these are good enough to decide whether to scan it high-res / multi-pass, or a bit quicker, or not at all.
Like @Föhn said it takes out the fun a bit for me as it's tedious sometimes,
but on the other hand you do get a really great high-res file of your photo for really cheap (assuming you have a scanner - and are then just paying for film developement). -
When I have enough rolls backlogged, I go rent a colour darkroom slot for a few hours, then make contact sheets of everything as fast as possible. Then after a while I pick my favourites and scan or print them properly.
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A question to the people using a 35mm scanner - given it takes a while to scan a single frame, how do you proof your negs prior to scanning? Do you use a loupe and a lightbox, or ask the developer to do a contact sheet?
I'm debating whether to buy a scanner (and a printer, FWIW) and I like the 35mm ones for compactness and resolution, but I don't want to spend hours and hours scanning... So trying to figure out a workflow.