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If you don´t have a film scanner then DiY
One thing that I love about film photography is the magic involved with the chemicals to revel what your eyes see against your camera.
I always try to experiment with film, you never know when it is going to end with, last year I created a pinhole panoramic camera I ended with 6 photos from one 120mm film of 6 x 12, a lot of fun. But my problem was in fact that my scanner does not support 120mm film even the new 6×12 frame photo of my pinhole camera.
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So I did a little search on flickr and find a cool solution. I did my own film scanner so, my option only to be able to show my experiments was to take a photo from the film. So I created a film scanner using a shoe box I cut the hole and add a 6×6 and 6×12 mask, cut a hole in the top for the flash, and then add some paper to diffuse the light.
Here is the inside of the box, I added 2 layers of wax paper to diffuse the light.
You only need to take a photo of the film and then in Ligtroom or Photoshop invert the colors and have fun. Now you can get a digital copy of your film experiments. This work for me, I know It may not be the best but to share on flickr works fantastic.
Here is one of my experiments using the DiY film scanner
I hope you enjoy this tip, I originally wrote this post on my blog but its in Spanish so I thought it will be cool sharing here the tip. If you need help you can leave a comment on my blog or on my flickr.
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Oh my! You are a genius!
Thank you raypg for the excellent article!
This is a great example how you can keep the whole process inexpensive with some creativity and good hands
You are welcome I love to contribute any place where film photography is appreciated
. I have in mind other topics and let you know latter what you think 
This is a really great idea! Thanks for posting
Love it! Something have a go at over the weekend… Thanks!
This is brilliant — thanks for sharing!
What I do is create a white image in photoshop, full screen it on my mac display hold the negative against the monitor and shoot.
I used the cheapest Canon camera on macro mode to make the actual “scan”.
Nice!
I like the simplicity of the design and also the moveable/removeable diffusers are a great idea.
Excellente, I’m starting to devolopping with “caffenol” (caffe, soda vitamin C)
but my scanner it’s only for 35mm.
Thank a lot and sorry for my English.
in this case, why bother to shot with film? just use Dcam directly.
Brilliant ! I’ll give it a try. Thank’s for sharing !!!
kbw: Well this can be useful if you have old negative film that you need to scan. You can recover those old photos, I don’t believe that you can go back to the past and take a digital photo xD,
looking for a DIY film scanner, this is the best I found, thanks !
That is amazing! Wish I could take back my medium format scanner now. I could have saved a lot of money.
cool man…amazing results.
Tried this, but no matter what settings I use in camera OR on the flash gun, it’s just blowing out the exposure….
Could it be because I mounted the flash gun opposite the neg as opposed to in the lid?
This is amazing, thanks for the great information. You are in-deed very creative.