Steve859
Disk Film Conversion
Remember disk film? It was available in the early '80s when our kids were born. For this Christmas our daughter asked for digital copies of the family photos which were on disk film and 35mm film. I have a 35mm film scanner but it doesn't handle disk film so I decided to take pictures of the negatives with a digital camera. After trying my various cameras, lenses, closeup attachments and teleconverter the best rig is the Sony A300 with its kit zoom lens set at it's maximum of 70mm. To make it macro capable I used an adaptor ring to attach to it face to face an old Yashica Auto Yashinon-DX F2 50mm lens from a Yashica J-4 35mm SLR which was my dad's camera when I was growing up.
After shooting a 15 exposure disk on a light table with the white balance on the camera set to 2500K the images were opened in Paint Shop Pro X on the desktop computer. The process then was to straighten, crop, invert the colors to make a positive and adjust the white balance.
To get the best image quality the camera was set to aperture priority F8, ISO100, self timer to reduce camera shake while on the tripod, auto expose set to center weighted and auto focus. 12 disks have been processed so far and the cd is on its way to my daughter. I enjoyed the project especially since I got to relive all those precious moments.
Disk Film Conversion
Remember disk film? It was available in the early '80s when our kids were born. For this Christmas our daughter asked for digital copies of the family photos which were on disk film and 35mm film. I have a 35mm film scanner but it doesn't handle disk film so I decided to take pictures of the negatives with a digital camera. After trying my various cameras, lenses, closeup attachments and teleconverter the best rig is the Sony A300 with its kit zoom lens set at it's maximum of 70mm. To make it macro capable I used an adaptor ring to attach to it face to face an old Yashica Auto Yashinon-DX F2 50mm lens from a Yashica J-4 35mm SLR which was my dad's camera when I was growing up.
After shooting a 15 exposure disk on a light table with the white balance on the camera set to 2500K the images were opened in Paint Shop Pro X on the desktop computer. The process then was to straighten, crop, invert the colors to make a positive and adjust the white balance.
To get the best image quality the camera was set to aperture priority F8, ISO100, self timer to reduce camera shake while on the tripod, auto expose set to center weighted and auto focus. 12 disks have been processed so far and the cd is on its way to my daughter. I enjoyed the project especially since I got to relive all those precious moments.