{"id":3801,"date":"2018-01-21T12:21:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T01:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/?p=3801"},"modified":"2018-01-26T16:56:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T05:56:01","slug":"scanning35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/scanning35\/","title":{"rendered":"Scanning Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I decided to again pickup an analogue camera one important question was raised, how to print and share worthy frames. The laundry developing of B&W negatives proved to be easier than I remembered but printing and sharing still needed to be worked out. I decided on a hybrid approach as there was no possibility of a darkroom. I would scan and that way insert them into my already digital work flow. How proved to be an easy answer as I have already started digitizing old film prints using my DSLR, see this post<\/a> although now I have updated the hardware used, the method is the same. The idea is the same, just adapted for film, below is a brief description of how I currently do it.<\/p>\n

Camera I use is the EOS 5D Mark III Body<\/a> and I power the body with a LP-E6 Dummy Battery DR-E6 DC Coupler for Canon 5D Mark III<\/a>.  The Canon EF 50mm f\/1.4 USM<\/a> lens attached and added between the lens & camera is the Canon Extension Tube EF 25II<\/a>, this reduces the focusing distance to between 200 & 220mm which is within the working range I need.<\/p>\n

Attached to the lens is the Polaroid HD Slide Duplicator With Macro Lens Capability For SLR Cameras<\/a> and into that I use the 35 mm film holder\/adapter made for Polaroid\/Bowers HD Slide Duplicator<\/a> . I had a similar one made that exposed three(3) frames allowing me to scan with less handling of the negatives, speeds up the process as well. A Youngnuo YN1410<\/a> is used to illuminate the negatives and I use a plug pack to save on batteries.<\/p>\n

The 5D3 is tethered to a laptop and I use the Canon EOS Utility 3<\/a>, this allows me to use Remote Shooting. The Remote Shooting software gives you full control over the camera’s settings allowing for quick changes between negatives as required. I shoot in manual mode, Auto White Balance, RAW, ISO 100 and save the shot images to Computer only. This allows me to save the images to a folder on the laptop I then setup Lightroom to Auto Import from that folder, applying a B&W Reverse Tone Curve to fix up the fact that I’m shooting negatives. This then gives me a very quick work flow from B&W negative to scanned B&W image in Lightroom. From there I treat it as I would any other image imported into Lightroom.<\/p>\n

Below is an image of the setup.<\/p>\n

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Film negative scan setup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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After some work with the above & an email for Don Komarechka answering a question I put to him about his method of film scanning, I was unhappy with the amount of digital frame I was wasting only using about 40%. So inspired by Don attitude more than his setup I set out to improve mine. <\/p>\n

Its basically the same with a few changes, I have added another Extension tube this time the EF12. doing that changed the working distance from the lens to the film so I modified an old cheep plastic extension tube to the correct length & taped the 35mm holder to the end. I now get about 80% frame usage, double with a little effort.<\/p>\n

Below is an image of my setup.<\/p>\n

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Updated neg scan setup.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A sample image from the latest scans, this roll was a Kest FP4 roll that is expired film. The date on the bulk film loader was August 1980, this gives the look you see.<\/p>\n

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Kest FP4 #3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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When I decided to again pickup an analogue camera one important question was raised, how to print and share worthy frames. The laundry developing of B&W negatives proved to be easier than I remembered but printing and sharing still needed to be worked out. I decided on a hybrid approach as there was no possibility… Continue reading Scanning Film<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,3],"tags":[4,9,61,35],"class_list":["post-3801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b-w","category-photo","tag-50mm-f1-4","tag-bw","tag-canon-eos-5d-mark-iii","tag-photography","post_format-post-format-image","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3801"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3818,"href":"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions\/3818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevetester.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}