{"id":17918,"date":"2017-12-18T22:16:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T22:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bubblegen.co.uk\/~matt\/blog\/?p=17918"},"modified":"2018-08-07T20:27:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T19:27:02","slug":"self-scan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/2017\/12\/18\/self-scan\/","title":{"rendered":"self scan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My first attempt at &#8216;scanning&#8217; a 35mm film negative in order to digitise it&#8230; My tripod + DSLR + 150mm macro lens above an LED back-lit 35mm film holder. The technique was one involving a lot of faffing about, but I&#8217;m sure it will improve over time &#8211; I hope :-) Getting the colours as close as I could to the film equivalent was one of frustration (often the case for first time negative DIY scanners like me). I use Digikam and RawTherapee for my digital workflow, and using Digikam&#8217;s spot white balance tool plus colour invert function, followed by some colour auto-correction, gave me a pretty good approximation to the original [a very good starting point]. A small tweak using the Curves tool to try and obtain the same colour as the film version, and I was happy-ish (although note to self &#8211; do try to remember to blow dust off the negative before photographing it!). Sounds simple. I think it took me several hours reading up and experimentation before I found what I&#8217;m pleased to say is a relative simple way to get reasonably good results. But &#8211; they&#8217;re never quite as good as the original. That&#8217;s the beauty of film :-)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Salts Mill | Kodak Portra 400<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first attempt at &#8216;scanning&#8217; a 35mm film negative in order to digitise it&#8230; My tripod + DSLR + 150mm macro lens above an LED back-lit 35mm film holder. The technique was one involving a lot of faffing about, but I&#8217;m sure it will improve over time &#8211; I hope :-) Getting the colours as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[831,790,791,789,662,816],"class_list":["post-17918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","tag-35mm","tag-film","tag-kodak-portra-400","tag-om1","tag-photoblog","tag-selfscan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17919,"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17918\/revisions\/17919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mframes.org\/photo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}