Elephant Scans
Elephant is the full-roll service for photographers and artists who want every frame digitised once at a quality worth keeping. It is designed for projects where fast preview scans are not enough, but scanning every frame as a separate premium image would be unnecessary.
Main features
- all images in high-resolution and quality from the start
- contact sheets for easy overview and assessment of lighting and exposure
- raw scans included for future-proof, archival backups
- cost-effective through streamlined workflow
- conservation-grade handling: no wet-mounting, no automatic threading, no liquids
Size Comparison
A visual comparison showing the resolution of dokko's elephant scans to the commonly used Fuji Frontier scanner:
Scan and Print Sizes
Contact Sheets
In addition to the individual scans, each roll includes two digital contact sheets so you can review the film in two different ways:
- color-timed sheet: each image corrected individually for easy viewing and selection
- one-light sheet: the same correction across the whole roll, closer to the logic of an analog contact sheet
Details
Many full-roll workflows still rely on quick draft scans first and higher-quality rescans later. That approach is often fine for rough previews, but it has clear limits if you care about image evaluation or future reuse:
- focus and exposure are harder to judge from low-quality preview files
- quick lab corrections are often destructive and hard to revisit later
- the original has to be handled again if more images are needed in better quality
- new print or publication needs can trigger unnecessary rescanning
Elephant takes the opposite approach: each frame is scanned directly at a high quality that is already useful for production, printing, and long-term keeping. The unedited raw scans are included alongside the corrected files, so you can revisit and re-edit any frame later without rescanning the original.
If you need higher resolution:
Download the PDF overview
with scan resolutions for all formats
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