![]() ![]() By this time I was considering giving up shooting colour film and only shooting B&W.Īround this time I bought a new mobile phone, the Google pixel 4a phone. Other programs like GIMP, RAWtherapee, darktable and the desktop version of FilmLab app were tried but personally I could never get, what I considered a decent colour rendition of the negatives. There was also the problem of then getting the images from the SD card onto the computer and finally start editing.Īdd to this what software to use to convert colour negatives to positives, not having Lightroom meant I couldn’t use Negative Lab Pro, so other alternatives needed to be found. Having no permanent place to leave the camera and tripod set up, it was always a pain making room on the kitchen table to scan. Then finally I moved onto the pixl-latr, although the pixl-latr helped a great deal the biggest problem was setting up and using the DSLR. Then it was just a matter of focusing the lens onto the image and clicking away at the frames I actually wanted.Īlthough I did have to be careful as the black card sometimes scratched some of the negatives which wasn’t ideal. The next solution was to use some black card and cut this to frame around either the 35mm or 120 film. I also had an old Jessops lightbox with daylight balancing lights which I used to use for viewing slides.įirst off I would use the scanners film holder from the Epson, laid across the lightbox and have the DSLR setup on a tripod pointing down to the images and although this worked for a while there was always a lot of light bleed from the light box. With the amount of dust on the images I was spending more time cleaning them than I wanted to.Īround this time DSLR scanning was starting to become a bit of a thing so I picked up a 50mm macro lens to fit on my Nikon d5100. ![]() ![]() It seems as though dust managed to get inside the actual scanner and attach itself to the light that scans images, I did manage to dismantle the scanner and clean up the dust but within a couple of months the dust was back in there and the whole process had to be repeated. Looking at the scanners on the market and the cost of them, the Epson V550 seems to fit the bill, the cost was around the £200 mark and it would scan 35mm and 120.įor the first year using this scanner was ok the black and white images turned out reasonable, the colour film could be a bit temperamental sometimes and still have colour shifts but by and by I got on ok with it but after about a year I started to notice that a lot of my images had a lot of dust on them but the dust wasn’t coming from the actual negatives but from the scanner. Yes, I could get the lab I was sending to, to scan the images but this was costly and also there may only be half-a-dozen images that are worth scanning plus I was developing my own B & W and so that needed to be scanned at home. When I first got back into analogue photography back in 2015, the biggest problem for me was how do I get these analogue images into a digital format to post on either a blog, Flickr or Instagram. ![]()
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