I was hoping to be out photographing today, but the
constant rain and fog wrote off that plan. Instead, I moved ahead with
improving my Lightroom catalogue; I spent the fall and winter replacing
old scans of medium format film with new copies, photographed using a
copy stand I built, a macro lens, and my Canon EOS 5D MKII. Today I took
that same approach with my new Canon EOS 5DsR, and applied it to the
largest format film I used, a collection of 12"x20" film images I made
in 2001.
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| Mounting a 12"x20" negative on a frosted window |
After
an initial test with a diffuser proving the back light for the negative
showed up issues (the copy image also recorded the fabric pattern of
the diffuser material). I tried again with a sheet of vellum, which
proved perfect, providing a soft, diffuse light behind the film, but not transferring a pattern behind the negative.
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| 12"x20" film |
Once
all the film was copied, I imported the RAW files into Lightroom (as a
negative image, above), applied an inverse curve (shifting the negative
image into a positive), cropped out the rebate, applied some tonal
adjustments and retouched some dust and marks on the image. The final
result (below) is a 39 megapixel resolution image from the original film
file.
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| 12"x20" film |
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