The interesting thing about this is this is my first 35mm film 'scan' made by using my DSLR. I used a D750, 60mm Micro Nikkor, a Nikon ES-1 slide copy adapter and this film holder:
Without really trying (I just took a few quick shots to provide proof of concept) it easily matches the best commerical lab scans that I have been paying big $$ for. So I am ecstatic about that. (Sure it's no Peter Figen drum scans, but what is?)
For this pano shot, I just photographed the image twice and did a photo merge in LR.
This is a heavily back lit shot on slide film, which does not have as great a DR as negative film, but yet there is plenty of shadow detail.
This one is Portra 400. You can see the sharpness, easily equal to that of the Nortisu scanners my lab is using.
I didn't have much time to play with it but getting rid of the orange cast was super easy. All I did was use the white balance dropper in LR before processing the image. I do have to experiment some more to figure out the correct colour toning process, then I will save that as a preset for each specific film.
B&W is super easy. All I do is shoot, then invert.
Using the D750 + slide copier is also extremely fast. Once I get accustomed to it I'm guessing maybe 30 sec - 1 minute per image. For 35mm I'm lighting it by using a flash in slave mode, backlighting the film.
Jaehoppa-- Those shots are inspirational...hope I can learn to shake out the same kind of magic out of my newly acquired P 67. I'm curious as to your lens (and film) that you are using--my guess would be the 105/2.4.
CreationBear wrote:
Jaehoppa-- Those shots are inspirational...hope I can learn to shake out the same kind of magic out of my newly acquired P 67. I'm curious as to your lens (and film) that you are using--my guess would be the 105/2.4.
Thanks for the kind words!
I actually just started shooting film. All the shots were with 105mm except the second shot which was taken with the 55mm f4.
Films used were in the order of Fuji Pro400h, Portra 160, Portra160VC, Portra800, Portra160.
Shots 1 and 3 are noticeably edited because of low contrast, probably due to me overexposing so much. I'm very excited to shoot film! You should make good use of your P67. It's an amazing system.
I remain in love with film despite having upgraded to the excellent Leica M10 recently and just love the colour and detail you can get from relatively inexpensive equipment with the right attention to detail.
All self scanned and processed with a Nikon Coolscan 9000
FYI I 'scanned' this using a D750, 60mm2.8 Micro Nikkor, a light pad and a copy stand.
After the first pic that took a few minutes to line everything up just right, the next ones took maybe 15 seconds each.
The advantage of real scanners is the dust removal software. But here I just use the cloning tool in LR.
Took two photos yesterday late afternoon of some tree blossoms with my 4x5" large format Swiss Alpina view camera. The first photo is this one here - Kodak TMax 100 film, f/16 with Schneider-Kreuznach 210/5.6 lens, 1/4 sec exposure. Developed in Xtol.
I'm curious as to your lens (and film) that you are using--my guess would be the 105/2.4.
