How to convert film negatives to digital photos using a DSLR
Have some negatives you want to convert into digital images? Follow along as I show one way of accomplishing this task. This episode shows what to make, how to setup your DSLR camera and basic post-processing steps to convert those old negatives into files ready for the digital age.
For alternate ways of doing this:
http://www.diyphotography.net/scan-yo...
http://www.diyphotography.net/scannin...
And here's an article discussing the higher resolution you can get with a camera compared to a scanner: http://petapixel.com/2012/12/23/why-y...
For a written transcript, see http://www.house-of-hacks.com/2012/07...
0:00 Channel introduction
0:13 Video introduction
1:00 Process overview
2:24 How to choose a lens and camera
5:27 How to setup the box and camera
7:46 How to setup the exposure
9:10 How to post process the negatives
15:54 Wrap up
Music under Creative Commons License.
Intro/Exit: "Hot Swing" by Kevin MacLeod at http://incompetech.com
