An in studio seminar on copying/digitizing your film archives with your digital camera including two scans of your work

Saturday July 27, 2024. 9am to 5pm. $250

Copying Setup

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 that can be used to very effectively to copy your film. And that’s the key.

In this seminar, I will explore ways I have been scanning my film since 1989. This demos and lectures 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.

Issues explored will be B&W and color negative conversion, contrast control, HDR encoding for contrasty film and the logistic of camera/film alignment, focus and workflow.

We will do two film copies for each student.