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A non-scanner method of digitizing old slides
Authored by: TvE on May 08, '06 12:37:03PM

If you want to go to "all" that trouble, then get hold of a large piece of cardboard and cut a rectangular hole in it (eg 24cm x 36cm).
Then tape a piece of semi-transparent paper/canvas to cover the hole (looks like baking paper - I don't know the correct term for the material… ;-) and voila - you can now position both the slide-projector (in front of…) and the digital camera (behind…) at a 90 degree angel to the image and get the proportions/perspective 100% correct.

PS.: Remember to "mirror" the slides or photos :-)


PPS.: I took some surprising good 1:1 shots of some of my old negatives by holding the negative in front of my 60 mm macro Nikkor and had my flash illuminate a white piece cardboard behind the negative…
Where there is a will there is a way…



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