Film photography has a habit of resurrecting things the industry once quietly wrote off, and drum scanning is a perfect example. For years, it was treated as a relic of a pre-digital golden age, something reserved for museums, fine art printers, and the most obsessive commercial workflows.
Yet while desktop film scanners and mirrorless scanning kits surged in popularity, drum scanning never truly disappeared. It simply carried on, largely unseen, doing the slow, meticulous work it has always done for those who demanded the absolute best from their negatives.
