Photographer Claus Thiim has come up with the probably giveaway approach to indicate hundreds of old negatives as well as slides. Best of all, it is easy as well as quick to have as well as use.

Even if you never touched a movie camera, you probably have the few paper pouches of aged negatives lying around, inherited from somebody like me, who has boxes and boxes full of the things. Apart from a odd inebriated sentimental night where I may go by a few boxes, they’re unfailing to sojourn unseen.

Thiim’s method eschews delayed, bulky scanners as well as doesn’t even think about mail-in scanning services. He uses a fastest scanner he has: his DSLR. Onto the front have been mounted an aged manual focus (90mm) lens, an prolongation tube (which moves a lens forward as well as allows closer macro focusing). Then things get beautiful, with the integrate of toilet-paper tubes taped to an aged filter with the potion private, along with the cosmetic 35mm slide-mount upon the finish. The mountain is non-stop at a sides to let a film slip by.

To scan, you just pierce the film through as well as snap the support. If your camera has live-view, you can even check framing as well as focus from a comfort of the rear shade.

What I like most is a speed and preference (and of march a cost. It might be the outrageous suffering to go through tens of thousands of frames, though for smaller plan this is preferred. And for people who still similar to to fire movie from time to time, this DIY plan is done for you: shooting as well as building your own B&W film is easy and requires no darkroom. Combined with this as well as you can shoot pricey movie at roughly no price.

Thiim’s Flicker set shows the details of a setup, though it’s so flexible you can substantially bend any pack you have to work. Check it out:

DIY 35mm disastrous duplicator [Claus Thiim / Flickr around DIY Photography]