Digital Contact Sheets
The new Digital Contact Sheet by State Film Lab is a 100 megapixel scan of your entire medium format or 35mm roll. Unmatched resolution allows you to crop in on any frame preserving valuable rebate information and film borders.
Features include:
- 35mm or medium format film
- color or black and white film
- 100 megapixel scan ~ 11,500×9200 pixels
- Crop and preserve film borders for use with web, print and social media
- Unmatched quality at an affordable rate
- Optional 8×10 printed contact sheet
How are Digital Contact Sheets used?
Proofing. Contact sheets are traditionally used to proof an entire roll of film. They provide a quick reference of every frame laid out together so you can make quick selects.
Exposure Reference. Contact sheets provide a better understanding of overexposure / underexposure versus seeing individual film scans. With individual frames, it is tough to evaluate exposure inconsistencies since scan brightness is often adjusted frame-by-frame (i.e. brighter scans for underexposed frames, darker scans for overexposed frames, etc).
Sharing. Our Digital Contact Sheets allow photographers to crop in on single images while preserving film border details (i.e. KODAK PORTRA 800). Photographers can utilize this feature to share images online and make small prints that showcase film borders.
Film Scans vs Digital Contact Sheets
| Film Scans | Digital Contact Sheet | |
| Dust Correction | Yes | No |
| Film Borders | No | Yes |
| Scan Exposure Basis | Individual frames get their own exposure settings | Entire sheet gets one exposure setting |
| Tonality & Color Adjustments | Pro Scans – Yes Standard Scans – No | No |
| Things to Know | Yields the best tonal quality for each individual frame | Light gradients such as skies or walls may appear uneven at times |
Below: sample scan followed by a 100% crop // photos © Forrest Mankins
