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Testimonial / James Smith
There is something very comforting knowing that one’s 5×4 colour negs are digitised to their absolute full potential, (whether that full potential sees the light of day is another story!) but this process from Film to 16 BIT should be taken as seriously as...
Testimonial / Tony Gaskins
Professional Drum Scanning did an excellent job scanning my 5×4 transparencies. The returned digital files are top quality, with accurate colours, properly exposed and superbly sharpened that will give me options for significant enlargements of the files if...
Testimonial / Paul Francis Bryan
I’ve recently begun archiving negatives from a whole host of years in photography when my most recent scanning service stopped trading. I’d been searching for a replacement drum scanning service for the past year when I found these guys. During my research I came...
Testimonial / Professor Calum Colvin OBE RSA FRSE
My work is a combination of painting, sculpture and photography, a form of ‘constructed photography’: assembled tableaux of objects, which are then painted and photographed.
Testimonial / Keiran Perry
It is an absolute pleasure working with Tim and Charlotte. They go far beyond a typical photographer-lab relationship, offering a breath of fresh air with their kindness, attention to detail, and personable nature. They devote the necessary time to ensure each project...
Testimonial / Philip Newsome
I have been photographing motorsport since the early 1980s primarily using 35mm slide film as well as 120 roll film using a rather cumbersome Pentax 67. When I decided to create a book of my photography it was inevitable that many of my images would come from this...
Testimonial / David Keyes
Just upstream from Stockghyll force near Ambleside are a series of falls, including this one. One rainy day I took a Linhof Technika with a Grandagon and some Portra 400 in a 6×9 roll film back, also brought along a Leica M240 with a Summilux. Getting the film...
Testimonial / Morgan Sendall
The Grand Tour illustrations In 1987 I produced a series of seven panoramic illustrations for Thames Television’s historical drama documentary ‘The Grand Tour’. The original panoramas were shot as a series of pans on a rostrum camera using 16mm film. The original...
Testimonial / Andrew Farr
All photographers who use slide film yearn for that Velvia on the light box look, drum scans get close to it. If I could afford it, I would have the last 8 years of work rescanned by Tim.
Testimonial / Dave Jeffery
Here is a sample of a scan that was returned to me from an inexperienced scanner operator. He didn’t notice the flaw in the image where one section was out of alignment. This is how I learned the hard way that it’s a waste of time and money to try and save...
Testimonial / Benjamin Jones
The quality of scans that came back is excellent, and given the scale that one particular negative was being enlarged to (300x600cm), Tim was incredibly helpful in finding the best technical process for achieving this at the highest quality. Huge...
Testimonial / Francisco Peral
I compared scans from 4×5 film scanned on an Imacon to the 6×7 drum scans from Tim and the 6x7s were somehow sharper! The Professional Drum Scanning team put in the time and effort to get the best results from my negs that most London labs haven’t come close to.
Testimonial / Michael Freeman
“Dense Kodachromes, in the way many of us used to expose them, are the most difficult of all colour reversals to scan. Shadow detail is very subtle, only just visible under a loupe. Only a drum scanner is even worth considering, and even then, there are...
Testimonial / Anna Fox
“I have used the service at Professional Drum Scanning for some years now, and working with Charlotte and Tim is a dream – they are totally professional, the work is of an excellent quality and is great value for money. When I produced a show for the...
Testimonial / David Anderton
“Professional Drum Scanning (PDS) has proven to be a wonderful discovery and an excellent resource for me. Over decades spent as a Creative Director and Graphic Designer, in the fields of Advertising, Graphic Design and Marketing, I became very familiar with...