VE6AB Technical
DIY Film Scanning Station
What your looking at is how to scan slides or film negatives quickly by-passing an actual scanner that is slow at best. The work-flow with this setup consisting of a DSLR and Macro lens along with a LED Light Table and Copy stand creating your own DIY film scanning station works terrific.
Although my 24-70mm lens has macro capability, it does not magnify enough to allow for full-frame scanning of the transparency or negative, so I also am using extension-tubes between the camera body and the lens to accomplish that.
I have my camera lens set at f8 for good sharpness with the camera set at at an ISO of 100. I use a remote shutter release keeping vibration out of the equation, although you can use the camera timer to accomplish this as well.
Of course it goes without saying that I run a camel-hair brush over the transparency or negative before using dust-off to blow any dust particles away adhering to the surfaces.
Once I have scanned the slide or negative, I then do any tweaking required with my photo editing software. My camera can be tethered to my laptop allowing for quickly transferring the image to my laptop that I use for editing, although you can load the images from the camera card if you desire.
My DSLR is left permantly setup as part of my film scanning station, as I have moved on to using mirrorless cameras in the field for all my day to day shooting.
Of course when I'm shooting with one of my film cameras, this system is used for digitizing the images.
Kodachrome 64 slides digitized with this setup.....
https://www.jerryclement.ca/Kodachrome-64/i-9gVn8kT
