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I just posted a few more articles and resources that I found and have used on my scanning project if you are interested in an update :)

Steven and Emma on a class trip to Denver, Colorado for a high school photography class field trip in 2010. A busy street with cars is in the background of two young people looking at the camera. The young man, Steven has a Nikon DSLR with Nikon branded camera strap around his neck. Emma, the young woman has a sling bag over her shoulder. 35mm film negative has been photographed with a mirrorless camera. Photo negative has been processed separately to allow frame numbers on film negative to show in Affinity Photo.

Steven and Emma on a class trip to Denver, Colorado for a high school photography class field trip in 2010. A busy street with cars is in the background of two young people looking at the camera. The young man, Steven has a Nikon DSLR with Nikon branded camera strap around his neck. Emma, the young woman has a sling bag over her shoulder. 35mm film negative has been photographed with a mirrorless camera. Photo negative has been processed separately to allow frame numbers on film negative to show in Affinity Photo. Alternative edit to first photo.

Steven and Emma on a class trip to Denver, Colorado for a high school photography class field trip in 2010. A busy street with cars is in the background of two young people looking at the camera. The young man, Steven has a Nikon DSLR with Nikon branded camera strap around his neck. Emma, the young woman has a sling bag over her shoulder. 35mm film negative has been photographed with a mirrorless camera. Photo negative has been processed in Affinity Photo without film negative showing. See other photos in post for alternative edits.

I am making progress on the processing side of my High School film photography digitization project.

Here are three website links that have been very helpful.

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forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/t...

forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/t...

uploadcare.com/blog/the-wha...

Photo panorama with five photos of a 35mm film contact sheet lit up on an LED light board.

Bimostich Pro app icon on Android.

Scanning in film photography with a mirrorless camera is something that I am working on.

To aid that process I am taking cellphone pictures of my contact sheets as mini panoramas and stitching them together in Bimostich Pro on my Android phone. It is a way to keep organized.

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2008 Apple imac and old Apple Mac Book Pro on makeshift desk with a large collection of home DVDs and hard drives of various vintages. I called this project the "Homan Data Liberation Front" as I was liberating and freeing years worth of family and personal data that needed to be organized.

Here is a photo of what I called the "Homan Data Liberation Front" a number of years ago as a play on the Google Data Liberation Front.

Years worth of family and personal photos and videos needed to be "liberated" and organized. From 500gb or 5tb drives or DVD back ups it got much more organized.

Shrubs in a backyard?

Old radio equipment and digital mechanical clock. Trophies and miscellaneous stuff on a bookshelf in a bedroom.

Outside of a house, probably mid 50s. The colors here are the best I could do with some very old and damaged film.

An extremely damaged film frame with a window.

Four color photos I found on a film strip.

Processed through Affinity Photo and digitized with my Canon R8 mirrorless camera and Sigma 90mm macro lens set up on an LED light table.

These are views of my dad's childhood home and are not my own photos except for the digitization process.

Box of 1920s film photography equipment from my relative on Colorado's Eastern Plains who took a Kodak Correspondence course sending in typewritten letters and negatives for feedback and instruction in the early days of photography.

Box of old film development powder from the 1920s. Grey box with line design around the box edges. Text inside line design reads: Eastman Kodak Developing Powders 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 inch developing tanks Style A. Kodak Developing Machine and 4 X 5 plate tank Made in the U.S.A. by Eastman Kodak Co. Rochester, N.Y. Trade Marks Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.

Box of old film development powder from the 1920s. Grey box with line design on the box. Text inside reads: Kodak

Eastman wood printing frame for film negatives. Text reads: Eastman Printing Frame for (symbol that looks like an infinity symbol but is not?) Premo Negatives Model A Paper Size 1 x 2 Made in the U.S.A. Eastman Kodak C.O. Rochester N.Y.

This is a box of 1920s film photography equipment from my relative on Colorado's #Easternplains who took a #Kodak Correspondence course sending in typewritten letters and negatives for feedback and instruction in the early days of photography.

#Colorado
#PhotographersUnited
#EastmanKodak
#Film

Bracketed exposure settings on the Canon EOS R8 camera. I set the camera to take three different exposures. Using the two second timer and a manual external shutter release helped reduce camera movement beyond using a tripod.

Live view on the Canon EOS R8 showing a black and white 35mm film strip on an LED light board. I discovered that putting the light board on top of a cardboard box brought things closer to the camera lens. Even at 90mm it is hard to get up close to a single frame on a film negative.

Canon EOS R8 camera on top of a tripod mounted looking straight down at film negatives on an LED light board. A wired shutter release is attached to the camera.

One of three exposures in a bracketed sequence of three photos to get different exposures. The histogram is shown on the camera and shows that darker values, shadows are being clipped. If the values were on the right, highlights would be clipped. These RAW photos are combined into one photo to get more of the full dynamic range, exposure and contrast of a film negative in Affinity Photo.

Tonight I got a method down to quickly get film scanned without taking it out of the existing contact sheet protectors. Getting the bracketed RAW files processed into a digital negative was easier than expected. Processing is still something that will take a lot of work.

#PhotographersUnited

View looking down from camera perspective. Canon EOS R8 mirrorless camera and Sigma 18-90mm Macro lens on an inexpensive Albott tripod. The LED lightboard is one of the many inexpensive ones available online. Some of my various VHS digitization equipment is on the table.

Wide view of Canon EOS R8 mirrorless camera and Sigma 18-90mm Macro lens on an inexpensive Albott tripod. The LED lightboard is one of the many inexpensive ones available online. Some of my various VHS digitization equipment is on the table.

Things are moving along with testing out my film photography digitization set up. With the black and white film having a massive contrast and exposure range I am going to bracket three RAW exposures together to get a decent digital negative put together using Affinity Photo.

#PhotographersUnited

How I scan my film with a DSLR - Girl With Too Many Cameras Yes, that’s right. I use my DSLR to scan my photographic film, and you can too. In this article, I’ll cover why you should use your DSLR to digitize your negatives, how to get started, and tips & tidb...

Danielle Wrobleski has a great setup with a DSLR for film scanning that I am trying to follow and work off of a bit:

www.girlwithtoomanycameras.com/how-i-scan-m...

My brand new digitizing workflow using a 25 year old film scanner - Vlado Vince Photography is arguably my oldest hobby. I’ve loved taking photos for as long as I can remember. I reflected on my first encounter with digital photography in 2003 in a recent post, but I’m old enough...

And something newer that I read as well about using old MacOS 9 software and old film scanners:

blog.vladovince.com/my-brand-new...

This is what started it all for me years ago after finding my parents and relatives Kodacrome slide film from many, many years ago :

www.chrisfinke.com/2017/07/30/s...

Hi Mark, I am happy to share my progress as I go along as it is inspired by many different photographers that I have seen online and other places and plan to do so. This is all very DIY and I do not have it all worked out yet.

A macro lens allows close focus and more detail from the negative.

White cardboard box with black sharpie handwriting saying "Oliver's High School Film Photography and family Photos to Scan. In crossed out neon green sharpie is the text "old work". To the left of the box is an LED light board with a 35mm film contact sheet laid out for printing in the darkroom and archival storage.

White cardboard box with black sharpie saying "photos to scan - oliver's HS Film." An LED light board with a 35mm film contact sheet laid out for printing in the darkroom and archival storage on a wood table and an air blower for getting dust off of negatives.

An LED light board with a 35mm film contact sheet laid out for printing in the darkroom and archival storage.

Canon EOS R8 digital mirrorless camera with R to EF adapter and Sigma 18-90 macro lens set to 90mm macro mode.

I have a macro lens on my Canon R8 and am feeling fairly confident that I have things in place to use that camera/lens system with an LED light board to scan in the box of 35mm and 120 film I have from High School. This should be pretty fun to look back 15 years into my past.

#PhotographersUnited

A young boy sits in a wash tub in the 1920s in Eastern Colorado. Table and chairs are in the background. This was my great, great uncle Chuck.

A young boy tries to turn the starter crank shaft of an early car in Eastern, Colorado in the 1920s. This was my great, great uncle Chuck.

A relative of mine from #Colorado was into photography in the 1920s and took a #Kodak Correspondence course. I had the 120 film negatives and typewritten course letters scanned in at a local digitizing business several years ago.

It is a fascinating look at everyday life.

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4in by 6in photo print of a photo I took of a fire damaged wood fence from the High Park Fire in Poudre Canyon in Colorado, USA put next to my artistic sketch of that photo.

My first post here on the Archive1394 account is a print of a photo I took of a fire damaged wood fence from the High Park Fire in Poudre Canyon in Colorado, USA put next to my artistic sketch of that photo.

#Colorado
#Wildfire
#Art
#Sketching
#Drawing

I created a second BlueSky account, Archive1394, to share some older content I have.

There is lots of analog media that I digitized over the years that would be interesting to share. Old videos, film photography, and travel photos are a few things that I have :)