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[cls]

That's damn decent! I've never heard of anyone digitizing old negatives that way. I'm assuming it was backlit somehow?

The principle is basically the same as scanning (but the usual scanner needs more than 1/160 sec to scan a negative). I've read quite a lot about this method and the big guys use special rigs for the camera and light boards to place the negatives on. I set up a simple DIY arrangement with a carefully levelled plastic board (the same one as you've seen a couple of glasses on), lit from below by a speedlite. The camera was on tripod from above and also carefully levelled.

It takes some time to tweak a LR/ACR preset that gives a nice result, but then I just apply it to the whole batch. Some individual fine tuning and cropping is also required to get the final result.

[conropl]

Merry Christmas, from my family to yours.

Thank you, and I hope your lovely family have a great Christmas as well. Christmas is always fun with little ones in the house... so it looks like you should enjoy it. That is a great shot.

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.

That is neat.

[rlriii13]

Merry Christmas, from my family to yours.

[bouwy]

Merry Christmas, from my family to yours.

Classic

Wally

[Rocco]

Ha! I love it!

[Kayaker72]

rlriii13...you are training your children well.... cute picture.

CLS...that is very cool. One of my winter projects is to figure out how to "digitize" old photos from my Dad's side of the family. I am going to try to scan them again (I bought a Canoscan 8600 a few years ago) but my other thought had been to use a macro lens and photograph them. Glad to see it works pretty well.

[Chernenk]

A Saturday morning spent looking for that "perfect" Christmas tree out at a cut your own tree farm

[bouwy]

Christmas Tree 2011

Memorable shots...Nice

[ddt0725]

Beautiful photos of precious memories!!

Happy Holidays!

Denise

[Steve U]

Great Christmas images on these pages.
So I will go and spoil it with a shot of a girl, that hasn't taken her happy pills and she definitely won't share her teddy.
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Not sharing my teddy by Steve's Life, on Flickr[/img]
Thanks for viewing.
Steve