Articles

Grain2Pixel Overview

Converting processed film into a digital format is an indispensable step for most film photographers. Fortunately, Grain2Pixel offers a...

How to Level your DSLR Scanning Setup? Making your film and sensor parallel

When you're scanning film, it is important to make sure your camera sensor is aligned with the film to avoid wonky corners. This is a...

FilmLab 2.5 is here!

Film digitisation involves more than scanning. Negatives must also be turned into positives, and there are various software options...

VALOI Slide Holder and Basket

Our Slide Holder and Basket was created specifically for people who have large collections of mounted slides to scan. This two part...

Introducing the VALOI Essential Copy Stand

Copy stands are the piece of gear for camera scanning that we are asked about the most. In the past, we have had problems recommending a...

How to use the Negative Lab Pro conversion software

Scanning is only the first step in film digitisation, negatives will have to be converted to positives. There are many software solutions...

How to Choose the Right Exposure when Scanning

In order to get the most out of your scans you need to expose the negative properly when you are digitising it. This article summarises...

Foundations of Thinking in Colour

This article is part of a series that looks a little bit of a closer at the basics of digitising colour negative film. Before we get into...

VALOI Dust Management

In the film scanning world, dust is one of our biggest enemies. Thankfully, there are strategies that we can implemented to minimise dust...

Overview of Cinestill CS-LITE

This article is going to give you insight and testing of the Cinestill CS-LITE when used in a camera scanning system. The first part is...

Help Take VALOI to the Next Level

VALOI is now moving from our current website provider to Squarespace to gain better shop integration, and at the same time updating the...

How to convert negative film

This article covers the technical parts of making a final positive print from a scan of a negative image.

DSLR Scanning vs Flatbed

DSLR scanning vs Epson flatbed: Learn about the difference in quality between camera scanning and scanning using a flatbed.

Camera Scanning of Medium Format

Recently, a community memberr and Valoi pre-order customer, Richard, posted a set of interesting images on a Facebook page for camera...

Kickstarter Update #12: Holder moulds, final production Advancers in and Webstore update

Moulds Last week we received a big box of both 120 and 35mm Holders from the factory in the Netherlands with a bunch of test-parts They...