I scan all my negatives myself using my digital camera.
The cheap LED
I started out using a small led light, JJC FDA-LED1, to back-light my negatives and take photos using my Canon EOS R50 with a RF 85mm f/2 Macro IS STM. The LED-light thing was doing it’s job but I have replaced it. I want something a bit easier to work with and I want to be able to “scan” overlapping frames, panoramas and also get the sprocket-holes – all of which is not possible with the holder included in the JCC light. I have settled for Lomography DigitaLIZA+ hoping that will do well if I venture out trying 120 and 110 film on day.
At the start I would set the light to the least bright setting and take the photos in ISO 100 with aperture set to f/8. I used the built in light-meter and histogram to adjust the shutter-speed, sometimes even between frames/exposures. I have found that this is not the right way.
To begin with i stepped the light up to 6 of 10 – the difference being quite clear – I think I get more details out of the negative this way. These images are still with the JCC light and as can be seen on the images I have a problem with the alignment between the camera and the negative. The negatives does not stay flat enough either.
