Film sucks?
I am not happy right now.
I have decided to fuck analog and go digital. Maybe I am missing something, but this is one of the JPG files I got with my photos from the photo lab. Note that this is a very high quality professional lab, and they charge accordingly (thank god for 50% student discounts).
Aside from being only 1700×1200 in size (2 megapixels… WTF?), the photo is covered in noise that looks like the highest ISO setting on my old crappy casio digital camera.
All photos that I got were exactly the same. Some even worse.
The paper version looks just fine unless you really look close, then some noise is apparent, but nothing like the scans.
I also turned in several negatives to be scanned in, and it was the same thing there… And they didnt even remove the dust. WTF?
Is this a phenomenon that is common with film or am I just being ripped off? I can’t believe that this is a film phenomenon considering the kinds of film photos one sees in books etc… WTF.
On Monday I am also gonna go and crave my money back on those negative scans, they charged 350kr for scanning in negatives, and did not even remove the dust. In that case I might as well keep my old direct-from-photo-scans…
UPDATE: Apparently I is teh suxxor, and in fact such crap quality is to be expected from film. Especially from long exposures. I turned in some film to process at a different lab, to see if their scans will be any different. In that case I may take back some of the things I’ve said.