A new tool for organizing your negatives: Filmaris

Next up in this occasional series of film-photography tools built by developers in our community: Filmaris, made by Rémi. As with the last one, I asked him to describe it in his own words and send screenshots, and what’s below is my distillation of what he sent. Rémi built Filmaris around a simple observation: scanning every negative on a roll one by one is slow, and if you only end up printing or sharing a handful of shots, most of that scanning time was wasted. So Filmaris flips the usual order. You scan or photograph your contact sheets first — a flatbed scanner, a light table, even a Print File sleeve shot with your phone all work — and browse those the way you’d browse a roll with a loupe on a light table. Then you scan only the individual frames worth your time. It’s also built to preserve something most digital catalogs throw away: seeing a whole roll together, frame next to frame, in the order you shot it, which is often where the context or the mood of a session actually…