Lea while setting up to photograph film *may* seem to take some time, we all know preparation is the most important part of any job and one which makes the job go well. It may well take you some time to set up a light, it might even take you a whole 20 seconds to do a custom white balance for your chromes (if you have any to do) - I shouldn't be too fussed if it's just B&W you're shooting because there's no benefit to working in RGB for such things and you'll be desaurating to monochrome anyway.. It may even take you a few hours to work out which aperture is sharpest on your lenses - assuming it's something you haven't already done.. But the ten seconds or so it'll take per frame to shoot them adds up to relatively little time compared (1/60th of a second + fiddling time) to scanning (minutes per frame) a minute -3 minutes per scan adds up. add that to the time taken to write these things to file (Vuescan does that atomatically for you so that's a benefit) and the time taken to load the film, focus, etc and you might just find that six rolls of film can easily eat a whole day. If shooting by camera , you'll know copying off the card when done is pretty quick. 6 rolls = 1 dayish. Multiply that by X days and.. well. However for colour negs definately go down the path of scanning. Maybe do them first. that might help you make up your mind whether scanning or photographing will be the most appropriate use of your time ;) there's definate benefits to each method karl
