Scanning Color Negatives With Dslr

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.

Scanning color negatives with dslr.

Color correction has been a nightmare with c 41. I ve never done it before neither with a proper scanner nor by improvising. This one is for you dslr scanning folks or those who want more control out of your film scanner. A few days ago my boyfriend found some old 35mm negatives.

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. While the software for this scanner is incredibly powerful it falls apart when it comes to inverting color negatives. Moving onto a color negative i knew the process was going to be a bit trickier to deal with the orange mask of the film. 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.

How to scan film negatives with a dslr. But that alone led me to scan negatives that looked like the one on the left above. What i ve learnt during the last two or three of years of scanning film with my dslr. I use mine along side a nikon coolscan 9000ed a 2000 top of the range negative scanner.

Can i scan these films with just my dslr and the stuff i had lying around. When photographing the negative however it became my main concern. I ve seen many articles on the web explaining the basics of digitising film negative or transparencies with a digital camera. You take a photo of a negative into a light source and invert.

Scanners are tuned to deal with this mask already so the effect of it is pretty moot when using a film or flatbed scanner. The basics are quite simple. How to use your dslr to scan negatives.