Scanning Color Negatives With Dslr

How to use your dslr to scan negatives.

Scanning color negatives with dslr.

While the software for this scanner is incredibly powerful it falls apart when it comes to inverting color negatives. By scanning our film with our dslr then processing raw with negative lab pro we ve been able to get noticeably improved skin tones truer color reproduction and full creative control which is great news because i paid 130 to have just 5 rolls of 120 film developed and scanned by that lab which i will never need to do again. It s been just about three years now that i ve been using a drum scanner which has drastically changed my scanning process with color negative film. When photographing the negative however it became my main concern.

How to scan film negatives with a dslr. I ve never done it before neither with a proper scanner nor by improvising. The basics are quite simple. Is getting advanced color grading.

Color correction has been a nightmare with c 41. Can i scan these films with just my dslr and the stuff i had lying around. I ve seen many articles on the web explaining the basics of digitising film negative or transparencies with a digital camera. If you re scanning on a flatbed just be sure to scan it as if it s a positive because negative lab pro does its thing by converting the negative into a positive.

Scanners are tuned to deal with this mask already so the effect of it is pretty moot when using a film or flatbed scanner. What i ve learnt during the last two or three of years of scanning film with my dslr. If you ve taken pictures with your dslr you don t have to worry about remembering because you ll always have the original file as a negative. A few days ago my boyfriend found some old 35mm negatives.

But that alone led me to scan negatives that looked like the one on the left above. I use mine along side a nikon coolscan 9000ed a 2000 top of the range negative scanner. You take a photo of a negative into a light source and invert.