Hi,
You can find this tutorial on my blog: http://doismeios.pt/2014/04/03/digitize-film-negatives-u43-dslr-camera/
First of all let me give you a disclaimer, this is my method and it uses a lot of different stuff because most of the things I already had them at my house, if you're starting from scratch it makes no sense buying gear from two different systems like the ones I used. You can use this as an inspiration to reuse anything you may have at home.
Secondly let me explain the fundamentals of what you need:
1. A digital camera
2. A lens, the greater the magnification the better to take advantage of your camera sensor size (E)
3. A way to securely hold the film in front of the lens (B/C/D)
4. A good light source (A)
The rig
A - Flash Fl-36R (wireless triggered by the camera)
if you don't have a flash you can replace it with a strong light source, i.e. on a bright day, with the camera pointed to the window it's usually ok.
B - Film Holder (got of cheap from eBay)
C - A tube originally designed for scanning slides (it's just a tube, no glass inside, bought cheap from eBay)
In order to fit the film holder onto this tube, I removed the original slide holder and super glued the film holder to the tube.
D - Step down ring 52mm <-> 42mm (lens filter diameter is 52mm, tube diameter is 42mm)
E - Lens, preferably a macro lens because they tend to have a flatter focus plane and greater magnification
I used a Pentax FA50mm f2.8 Macro because that was the best I have available.
F - Extension tubes to increase the magnification (and take the best advantage of the sensor size)
in this case I used a 21mm tube to compensate the distance from the lens to the film, this wouldn't be needed if the distance from the lens to the film was shorter, because the lens used had 1:1 magnification.
G - Adapter m4/3 to Pentax PK
After everything is setup and in place, my usual work-flow is the following:
1. Set the camera to manual focus and manual exposure
2. Set the lens to F8
3. Clean the dust from the film
4. Put the film on the holder
5. Adjust focus
6. Adjust exposure
7. Shoot
8. Repeat from step 3 until everything is digitized (at this point I usually skip steps 5 and 6)
The digitised film will look something like this:
Feel free to correct any typos and ask any question you may have.
cheers
You can find this tutorial on my blog: http://doismeios.pt/2014/04/03/digitize-film-negatives-u43-dslr-camera/
First of all let me give you a disclaimer, this is my method and it uses a lot of different stuff because most of the things I already had them at my house, if you're starting from scratch it makes no sense buying gear from two different systems like the ones I used. You can use this as an inspiration to reuse anything you may have at home.
Secondly let me explain the fundamentals of what you need:
1. A digital camera
2. A lens, the greater the magnification the better to take advantage of your camera sensor size (E)
3. A way to securely hold the film in front of the lens (B/C/D)
4. A good light source (A)
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The rig
A - Flash Fl-36R (wireless triggered by the camera)
if you don't have a flash you can replace it with a strong light source, i.e. on a bright day, with the camera pointed to the window it's usually ok.
B - Film Holder (got of cheap from eBay)
C - A tube originally designed for scanning slides (it's just a tube, no glass inside, bought cheap from eBay)
In order to fit the film holder onto this tube, I removed the original slide holder and super glued the film holder to the tube.
D - Step down ring 52mm <-> 42mm (lens filter diameter is 52mm, tube diameter is 42mm)
E - Lens, preferably a macro lens because they tend to have a flatter focus plane and greater magnification
I used a Pentax FA50mm f2.8 Macro because that was the best I have available.
F - Extension tubes to increase the magnification (and take the best advantage of the sensor size)
in this case I used a 21mm tube to compensate the distance from the lens to the film, this wouldn't be needed if the distance from the lens to the film was shorter, because the lens used had 1:1 magnification.
G - Adapter m4/3 to Pentax PK
Subscribe to see EXIF info for this image (if available)
Subscribe to see EXIF info for this image (if available)
After everything is setup and in place, my usual work-flow is the following:
1. Set the camera to manual focus and manual exposure
2. Set the lens to F8
3. Clean the dust from the film
4. Put the film on the holder
5. Adjust focus
6. Adjust exposure
7. Shoot
8. Repeat from step 3 until everything is digitized (at this point I usually skip steps 5 and 6)
The digitised film will look something like this:
Subscribe to see EXIF info for this image (if available)
Feel free to correct any typos and ask any question you may have.
cheers