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The Negative Never Lies: What Working in a Lab Taught Me About Film

The Negative Never Lies: What Working in a Lab Taught Me About Film

I used to think that introducing a digital camera into my workflow was a betrayal of the craft. I was wrong. By using camera scanning as a modern proofing tool,...
Why the VALOI easy120 is the Ultimate Film Scanning Solution

Why the VALOI easy120 is the Ultimate Film Scanning Solution

Film photography has fully re-established itself in recent years, but there’s a real bottleneck in the workflow: film scanning. For years, most photographers have been caught between slow, unsharp flatbed...
Film Scanning On the Go: VALOI easy35 & easy120

Film Scanning On the Go: VALOI easy35 & easy120

For decades, photographing on film has been a beautiful, intentional process. But when it comes to the digital side of things—actually scanning your negatives or positives—the experience has historically been...
easy120: The Best Way to Scan Panoramas

easy120: The Best Way to Scan Panoramas

There is nothing quite like the experience of shooting with a Pentax 67. The mechanical clunk of that massive mirror, the gorgeous 6x7 negatives, and the pure tactile joy of...
Artist Spotlight: Martina Trepczyk

Artist Spotlight: Martina Trepczyk

Photo Credit: Laura Reichert  Hi Martina, tell our audience briefly about yourself and what you do?  I am a filmmaker, photographer and artist, a deeply sensitive person who feels at...
Negative Conversion Updates: Capture One & FilmLab 3.5

Negative Conversion Updates: Capture One & FilmLab 3.5

If you’ve been camera scanning for a while, you know all about the "conversion confusion." The film conversion universe is vast and constantly expanding, there is the OG Negative Lab Pro...
How to Get Lab-Quality Medium Format Scans at Home with the VALOI easy120

How to Get Lab-Quality Medium Format Scans at Home with the VALOI easy120

The medium format experience is a beautiful, slow-motion dream—until you have to scan it. If you’ve ever spent three hours wrestling with flimsy plastic holders only to get a "sharp-ish"...
My First 2 Hours with the VALOI easy35 v2 Prototype

My First 2 Hours with the VALOI easy35 v2 Prototype

Hi there, I’ve been using VALOI products since long before I joined the team. I’ve always loved their simplicity, but as a "darkroom first" photographer, I mostly used the original...
Why we Invented a New Light Source from Scratch Just for Compact Film Scanning

Why we Invented a New Light Source from Scratch Just for Compact Film Scanning

By Arild Båsmo, founder of VALOI The light source in the original easy35 worked really well. It got thousands of people scanning film with results they were genuinely happy with....
Why the easy35 v2 Feels So Different in Your Hands and Scans Better Than Ever

Why the easy35 v2 Feels So Different in Your Hands and Scans Better Than Ever

By Arild Båsmo, founder of VALOI The original easy35 relied on careful manufacturing and tight quality control to achieve a great scanning result. When we were reimagining it for the...