On 2021-08-07 10:39 p.m., Douglas McGarrett wrote:
On 8/7/21 5:11 PM, Michael Hamilton wrote:
On Sunday 08 August 2021, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Le 07/08/2021 à 19:53, Douglas McGarrett a écrit :
Well, this is probably not helpful, but here is one such page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtMzs1Xvysg ok, so *still* photograph scanner, nice.
The device claims to read positive (slides) and negative film. Its built-in screen does do that. Nothing I tried on Windows or Linux gave any indication that the device even existed. I didn't have time to look at all the video, is it not possible to scan to sd card?
I don't have any trouble connecting my
Panasonic camera or a webcam to the computer, so I blame the device for not working.
I sent it back to Amazon for a replacement. Like the gentleman in the "review" I have lots of old slides going back to the 50s or earlier. --doug
next time, you can test "Vuescan", not open nor free, but extremely good as film scanner (not expensive and there is a free demo)
be warned than such scanner do not give very good results, mostly because the dust on the film. One need an expensive Nikon scanner, I did so for around 10.000 images around 2009. I buy a second hand scanner and sold it afterward the price I paid, so at no cost finally
jdd
If you're good at DIY and knowledgeable concerning photo processing, it can be faster to make a first pass using a digital camera with a suitable macro lens, a DIY slide holder, and software that can batch negate and color adjust images (a piece of fully exposed negative can be used to get a rough take on the color correction). I used KDE's digikam to batch convert and cleanup quite a few negatives. Once the keeper negatives are identified, they can be sent to a lab to be put through the best equipment available (if that's really necessary, in my case not).
Sample simple DIY rig: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/64441223
Sample result from above rig: https://www.dpreview.com/galleries/5138299782/photos/2819957/scanned-from-ne...
Sample crop at full resolution: https://www.dpreview.com/galleries/5138299782/photos/2819956/negative-scan-1...
Michael That's very impressive. My father once built a rig something like that. As a teacher of history at the high-school level, he built a framework to copy National Geographic
color pages--to slides, of course. He used a fairly simple 35mm camera and a closeup lens. I don't know how he got the focus correct--this was before the SLR was invented--at least at an affordable level. (I think Graflex might have made one then. This was in the mid 1940s.) Pop eventually wrote a book on photography-- "Toward Better Photography" --Vincent McGarrett, 1947. Some of that rubbed off on me, but I never got that deeply into it! --doug
Mucho if you google https://fstoppers.com/education/how-use-your-dslr-scan-negatives-137248#comm... http://www.austinpaz.com/blog/2015/6/16/35mm-film-scanner Much illustrated https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/lets-see-your-dslr-film-scanning-setup/2... DPReview has threads about scanning using different cameras. Overwhelming. Decision paralysis. -- “Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it’s conspiracy theories or free-market,” -- James Glattfelder. http://jth.ch/jbg