When all else fails, Experiment!

I didn’t shoot much at all last week. I have a few technical ideas, things I would like to try with one or another of the cameras or lighting/staging rigs I’d like to build, but no real will or interest, or even much time to do any of it, and no ideas or inspiration about what …

Digitizing Film Without a Scanner (pt. 3)

And it was close, but no cigar… As you flip through the pictures below, note a couple of things: 1) the warp in the film; 2) the focus (or lack thereof); 3) the color. So my cardboard-and-tape film duplicating contraption failed to keep the film flat. Additionally, it was just a bit shy of the …

Digitizing Film Without a Scanner (pt. 2)

So yesterday, I went through the rationale for this project (apologies for the long-windedness of that article), and the first evening of tests. Today, we’ll look at some examples from my first attempts with 35mm color negatives and their foibles. While hunting through my film archives, I came across a color roll that I didn’t …