Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline
A story about replacing a creative workflow and focusing on another.
Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline launched on October 3, 2026 with 120 votes, #109 of 3,564 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
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This is a personal essay documenting one photographer's experience automating their 35mm film scanning workflow. The author shares their journey with analog photography, particularly their use of a Canon AE-1P inherited from their father, and describes the creative process of film photography. The piece explores how shifting from manual scanning to automation allowed them to refocus their creative energy on other aspects of their photographic practice rather than technical post-processing tasks.
written from the facts on this page · October 2026
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A story about replacing a creative workflow and focusing on another. I love photography. There is a special feeling to seeing an image through a lens, organizing it to compose a story, and working with the resulting photo. I had cycled through DSLR and mirroless cameras before falling in deep love with the Canon AE-1P, an analog SLR that my dad traveled with around the world before settling down in the States. Film photography is simple, but particular: you expose reflected light against a strip of plastic and burn-in a chemical image. Depending on the light conditions, film stock used, and lens, you’ll get magically unique compositions. For years my process looked like this: load film and…from shannadige.com
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