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Rafael Morales

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Ralph scanned film the cheap way.
« on: August 29, 2011, 06:10:08 PM »
 :D I used my Ipod which has a film scanning app. If I had two Ipods one could shoot and the other could be the light source. As I don't have a second Ipod I had to use a digital camera set on "Negative" and "close up" and this is what I got.

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Re: Ralph scanned film the cheap way.
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2011, 08:51:38 PM »
Just needs to invert the whole sha-bang and you might have something surprising.
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Re: Ralph scanned film the cheap way.
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2011, 08:56:34 PM »
 :) It is inverted the negative and the negative have made a positive. The picture is from under a car I was working on. The red thing is a car jack. I would have to tweak the colors and crop in on this to make something that is Ok. (I am going to buy a real film scanner soon. When I see it on sale; again.)

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« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2011, 09:00:33 PM »
Well... no wonder... I never photographed the underside of my car... it has cost me too many frustrations to have any desire of immortalizing its dark parts. (I think I've pretty much changed everything on it except for the ignition key!)
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Re: Ralph scanned film the cheap way.
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2011, 09:05:00 PM »
I was changing the front transmission mount and I thought I would immortalize that with pics. (it is on the floor in the pic) :D

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« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2011, 11:12:00 PM »
Well... at least it's not like a girl I know who stopped at a stop sign, heard a loud bang coming from under the hood only to find the engine lying there on the pavement! It was a not so old Chevrolet... the engine mounts broke off... lets just say you look kinda dumb when this happens to you!
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Re: Ralph scanned film the cheap way.
« Reply #6 on: August 29, 2011, 11:42:43 PM »
Ive been using my iPhone as a makeshift slide viewer.

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Re: Ralph scanned film the cheap way.
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2011, 12:26:18 AM »
Very classy, Gary! Phone-as-lightbox...sweet.

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Re: Ralph scanned film the cheap way.
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2011, 01:25:49 PM »
Don't go giving Apple ideas, they'll want to charge people for that "app" if you're not careful..... ;)
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Re: Ralph scanned film the cheap way.
« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2011, 03:46:12 PM »
If any of you use the little lab app I made, in the integrator part of the software there is a light table option :)
It's adjustable with 10 brightness levels and has a handy dandy grayscale too!
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