Friday, 22 January 2016

Scanning 120 film alternative

After recent shoot not going to planned, and a few 120 shots were out in focus, but I am struggling to use the enlarger to get it in focus while printing. So I wanted to invest some time with looking at scanning film, in particular 120 as we have an attachment for 35mm film but not 120.

On flicker I found a group discussing this, and one man posted how he does it, 


"1 Since I process my B&W film myself, I usually have a 12 exposure strip. I center two negatives at a time on the top of the scanner plate. 


2. Cover them with a sheet of Velum paper (actually regular white printer paper would work too). 

3.I then place a piece of clear glass over this to keep the negatives flat during the scanning process.

4. Next comes my light source, I use a 100watt equivalent florescent lamp in a metal reflector. This is place directly over the glass and negatives on the flat bed scanner.

5. Finally I use the scanning control software that came with the scanner to scan in my images.
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here is my results:


It worked okay, It was a very good way to really determine how In focus my pictures were, as the contact sheet didn't. The colour correction wasn't too difficult and I changed a few of the levels in photoshop.

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