Quick Start Guide

Super Fast Approach

 * Take the camera or a cell phone in one hand
 * Take (framed) slide/transparency in another hand
 * Walk to the window, wait for a nice big white cloud to approach
 * Take a picture of the slide using the white cloud as a backdrop
 * Download the image to the computer and use your favorite image editor to crop the scanned image.
 * Post on Facebook. Wait for thousand likes.

Fast Approach

 * Read joke above


 * Mount the camera on tripod or macro bellows
 * Put on any prime/fixed focus or macro lens and some extension tubes so that the total length of all tubes is equal the lense's focal length
 * Shake of dust from your original
 * Place the original at the distance of two focal lengths from the lens - there are many film holders (new/old/legacy) available on the market. If you don't want to spend any money visit Home Depot store (in USA) and buy cheap clamp and small plyers.
 * Put some diffuser behind the original, and behind the diffuser put either a flash or some other white light source (the Sun will do as well )
 * Carefully focus the camera in Live view mode. If possible, use display magnification to focus “on the grain”
 * Take few pictures with the different exposures with appertures set around 5,6 or 8.
 * Repeat
 * Download images to PC and process them in any photo editor. Adobe Lightroom is the most common application.
 * Be surpised that you are getting pretty decent results.

Note: For negatives one more step is required: Inverting the image. That's easy for b/w and more involved for color negatives.

Enjoyable approach
Build yourself a rig!

If you have garage and you keep your car in the garage, it's time to put the car on a driveway and dedicate the whole garage space to the DSLR scanning.

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