Hi, I had some spare time for photography this weekend, but yesterday was overcast, rainy and dark. Instead I spent some hours taking photos of around 200 old negatives. I have tried this once before, but at that time I wasn't very careful and also I didn't have a macro lens. The result back then was quite poor. Yesterday put some more effort in: I was careful with aligning, lighting and focusing. I used my new macro lens but didn't get too close. I wanted some extra DOF and also some margin for placing the negatives.

The result was a lot better than last time. Of course, the images can't be compared to the 7D IQ, but they should be acceptable for small/medium format prints. (And what I'm really after is digitizing of the images, prints can of course me made from the negatives.)

So, one of my recent shots would be this one:


After some post processing it turns into an image similar (but levelled and distortion corrected) to the old print in my album:


(The shot is kind of recent and almost 15 years old at the same time.)