Scanning setup

My scanning setup works better on full, uncut rolls of film.

• Cut a piece of the leader at a slant for easier insertion
• Put in essential film holder
• Turn on light source
  • Cool light for color negs
  • Medium light for black and white (does not matter to much)
  • Warm light for color slide (at least for Ektachrome)
• Plug DSLR to PC
  • EOS Utility is probably running, if not start it
• Camera in M mode
• Put the old Macro lens, it does not talk to the camera and is already stepped down
• Set white balance to correspond to the configured light
• Attach camera to the Durst enlarger column
• Align film holder on top of light, use 3d printed spacer to help diffuse light
• Fill the frame with the negative, and focus on the grain using the 10x zoom in live view
• Set camera to 100 ISO
• Expose with shutter speed to push histogram to the right
• Take the first frame of the shot
  • This creates a folder in C:\User\<logon name>\Pictures\<today's date>
• Open Filmomat SmartConvert
• In preferences, change the hot folder to the one found above
• You should see that picture, adjust settings for density, contrast, color…….
  • tip: Select greyscale in the UI if you shoot black and white on the first frame, that shows the true contrast. This setting persist for all subsequent frames too.
  • Frame to frame settings persistance is also the case for mirroring and orientation
• Each time you take a picture of the next frame, check exposure to see if all the dynamic range is well available at the top of the histogram, then adjust frame by frame in SmartConvert
• Once you are done, export the TIFF files
• Open those for furher editing (I do not crop them in Filmomat, I do that in DarkTable for example)