A free online seminar on copying/digitizing your film archives with your digital camera.

If you were photographing and building archives long before digital photography came along, you may want bring those older negatives and slides into the digital age for editing and printing. Film scanners are less and less available, and high quality scanners are expensive. But you already have a digital camera. And that’s the key.

In this free virtual seminar, I will explore ways I have been scanning my film since 1989. This lecture will concentrate on my more recent approach of copying my film directly with my digital cameras and a macro lens, on my copy stand. It is a fast process. I can digitize a whole roll of film in a minute or two. Although the quality is not as good as with a high-end film scanner, the results are impressive, and have yielded very nice prints.

This free Zoom seminar will explain my methods, practices, and remaining challenges of quickly building a digital archive of film.