I finally retrieved three rolls of Tri-X from a local lab which were shot back in December on a buisness trip to San Francisco. I had the lab (Techlab) here in Baltimore scan them, but the scans are unusable. Many blown out and most full of dust. My usual lab for film, National Photo does a vastly superior job on develop and scan, but they don’t run Tri-X, so I needed an alternative.
The scanning wouldn’t be so bad, but my VueScan/Minolta Dimage III set up is being cranky, with random crashes of VueScan and one crash of the entire system.
Given my experience of traveling with the D300 last month, I’m not eager to keep on trying to use film and scan as much as I like the look of the images. I’d rather drag the D300 and convert from color.
Now that the Sigma DP1 is getting close to release and some images are being posted to the web, there’s the possibility of a larger sensor digital camera for travel to replace the Leica/film setup.