by Tim Parkin | Dec 15, 2025 | Film Type, Testimonial, Transparency
I’ve used PDS for a couple of years, having researched their standards and workflow. In the last month an urgent project came in for a large multi-national tech client that involved 500 scans of a variety of film formats shot over the last 50 years. They needed to be...
by Tim Parkin | Jun 18, 2025 | Colour Negative, Testimonial
I am showing some work from my project in Northern Ireland for the first time as part of a group show in Oslo (Prisms of Myopia). Seeing the drum scans for the first time on my screen was fantastic, this was before I had even made the final prints. The depth, clarity...
by Tim Parkin | May 27, 2025 | Black and White, Testimonial
Tim and Charlotte provide drum scanning services for my work, bringing a level of care and artistry that is rare in the field. I work exclusively with 8×10 film, not as a perfectionist photographer but as an artist, embracing the nuances of exposure to achieve a...
by Tim Parkin | Mar 14, 2025 | Colour Negative, Testimonial
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...
by Tim Parkin | Feb 18, 2025 | Testimonial, Transparency
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...
by Tim Parkin | Jan 7, 2025 | Testimonial, Transparency
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...
