Down & dirty contact sheet

[Les Hall]

Found an old (15yrs!) sheet of 120 negs without a contact sheet, wasn't going to pay the lab $10 for one. So I created a white bgnd document in Photoshop (instant lightbox) and placed the sheet of negs on the monitor - they stuck thanks to static electricity.

I then snapped them with my Ricoh GX-100 set to macro. Opened the image in Photoshop then inverted it & voila instant (almost) contact sheet. I was surprised at how usable it was. Sure you could see the 'texture' of the LCD, but for a quick idea it was perfect.

Here is a reduced version - http://www.leshall.com/contact.jpg

Have good weekends. Les

 

[lubitel]

thats a pretty neat solution.

 

[RayPA]

I do the same thing, except I usually use a blank Word document: http://rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15157.


🙂

 

[jbf]

Hah, so simlple Why didnt i think of that before.

Thanks for the tip!

 

[Les Hall]

I hasten to add that my lightbox is only a teeny 4x5 travel one otherwise I would have used that. I was looking around the office thinking of putting paper on a window etc I have a two monitor set-up with an old cheap LCD for my CS3 palettes etc and it happened to have a white bgnd. The idea would work much better with a decent lightbox.

Cheers. Les

 

[ChrisN]

Here's an inverted digital snap of a 4x5 negative on my lightbox, handheld. This is pretty close to life-size, too, on my monitor. A scanner is just a specialised digital camera, after all.

 

[manfromh]

I just tried it with a 6x9 neg and it worked, but the monitor texture is a bit annoying. I will try to make a lightbox, or something similar to get better results.

 

[Joao]

Scanning MF negatives

Scanning MF negatives

Hello
I managed to get some satisfactory results scanning MF negatives using a flatbed scanner,a 60 W lamp an acrylic white plate and 2 glass plates.At least they are good enough for web posting.Details here:
http://public.fotki.com/BlueWind/6x6-negatives---fla/
All comments welcome
Regards
Joao