Scanning Negatives with Nikon ES-2 Tutorial by Vincent Versace

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Vincent Versace unboxes the Nikon ES-2 and gives a step-by-step process on how to scan your film negatives using a Nikon camera and the ES-2 kit.
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Vincent suggests using the profile that looks best for your image. Here is a brief explanation of each picture control.
INVERT_BW_SD_NEG.NP2
Standard profile. Works for black and white and color.
INVERT_MW_MC_NEG.NP2
Monochrome profile. Works for black and white and color.
INVERT_BW_FLAT_NEG.NP2
Flat profile. Works for black and white and color.
Table of Contents
00:00-5:07 - What you need to use the Nikon ES-2 kit
5:07-9:17 - Setting up the Nikon ES-2 on the lens
9:17-12:29 - Preparing the negative
12:29-15:35 - Setting up the light source
15:35-19:09 - Photographing the negative
19:09-24:01 - Picture control
24:01-26:42 - Review

[@SteveLippitt]

Thanks very much for taking the time to create and publish your picture profiles - so very helpful and thoughtful! Much appreciated.

[@gstefanos2792]

I've learned a lot from this video, thank you very much! As for the picture controls/styles, they're just metadata embedded in the RAW file. Whether they'll be read and interpreted or ignored depends on the software you'll use to open the RAW file.

[@GarenMeguerian]

Great tutorial on how to use the. eS-2 for scanning film.

[@fekard]

I am also hooking the 850 to a TV screen using the hdmi feed. Makes focusing easy and let's me review with ease too. Thanks for this upload very insightful.

[@regdelynot7218]

Lots of useful information for a beginner like myself, good from start to finish.

[@kenz9668]

Great video! What could be used for the “clean cloth designed for negatives” that you place the prepared negative on? Thanks!

[@johnmurray420]

Thank you Vincent ,very helpful.

[@paulgeare6035]

Masterful video. I built my own rig rather that buy an ES-2, but it gave good results, and now great results because of what I learned watching this video. Thank you. 👍

[@gregmiller9957]

Paul...can I confirm with you if you're using his inversion profiles? ...and if you are, can you link me to some of your color negative inversions?

[@larx4074]

Excellent explanation and demonstration, many thanks.

[@TheWariole]

Thanks a lot. Very informative tutorial !

[@sreedharangopalsamy6323]

Excellent tutorial! I am getting my ES-2 next week and will use this tutorial as a guide. The picture controls for the negatives will be tremendously useful. I would also like to use the ES-2 for scanning my slides as well. I would like to ask if Vincent has any advice to tweak picture controls for slides? I am assuming that the tweaks made to the picture controls will give better colours for slides..

[@jjsoundguy]

This is a well thought out tutorial. So much work and prep went into this video. Thank you.

[@xxx-pt6hr]

Very helpful video. What is the MW_MC_NEG used for? Do you have a .NP2 for color negs? How are these created? Not in the Picture Control utility. Are the picture control parameters being applied to the .NEF? I assumed it was pure sensor data, but it appears it isn't.

[@F357Bis]

Many thanks for this very instructive tutorial! My ES-2 has been ordered and I hope that with my D500 + Micro 40 it will provide me with the expected picture quality! 😀

[@_SYDNA_]

Wow! A KZbin video from someone who actually has experience, knowledge and knows how things work. Thank you sir for taking the time to make this video for us. I agree that, for better or for worse, the best software for interpreting the RAW file is the software made by the people who designed the sensor. In my case that's Canon DPP4, which now can only save to a copy of the source file due to access permission fights with windows, but so be it. Now I need to go forth and see if anyone has made negative reversal presets for that software, so that hopefully I can do all of the image interpretation inside the mfrs. software. Thank you again for making this

[@shang-hsienyang1284]

Extremely informative. Thank you.

[@Jasman76]

Hello. Has anyone had success with using the D7200, 40mm and a Nikon flash? If so, did you need a diffuser or light modifier? What software did you use for the conversion? Thanks and great video.

[@gregmanske]

hello @Pictureline! thanks a lot for the nice tutorial! Is there any hack possible to use this (ES-2) with the 105 2.8D ? And also, the link to your profiles shows a page where you can't download them, would you have some place where they would be available? Many thanks!

[@RussDnB]

There's an awful lot of sneaky good tips in this video. Thank you

[@SteveFizz.40s]

Great Video thanks. How do you flip the image or do you do that after exporting the jpeg in photoshop or something?

[@alyssasklarski8059]

What camera(s) are these picture control profiles for?

[@coryisvanguard2613]

Thank you! You saved me so much money thinking I had to grab a d850, instead I can use my d500 with a 40mm micro. Thanks again!

[@rslimjoco]

Will the custom picture controls work on all Nikon DSLRs?

[@osmarfernandestavares6635]

Thanks a lot for this excelent video tutorial! It help me a lot to understand the entire process to scanning negatives using the Nikon DSLR with Nikon ES-2 kit. About picture control, the files available to download are working fine on my Nikon Capture DX-D, but I was not able to load those files on my cameras (D5000 and D600), A message " No Picture Control Files found o memory card " My memory card was formated on my cameras, and the files copied into the card, I tryed first copy the files to DCM folder, criated when the card was formated and after that, on root, but did not work in any of may cameras. I will really appreciate if you could confirm if those files are compatible with my listed cameras. Thanks in advance.

[@ronawood]

I have a Nikon D500. Would I "only" be able to use the 40mm DX lens or could I still use a 60mm FX lens with the proper adapter ring?

[@GonzoTheRosarian]

Very informative!

[@AtlantaTerry]

I don't own the lenses mentioned, but I do have a 55mm Micro-Nikkor lens so looked on Nikon's USA website and found the Nikon ES-1 which was designed to mount on the 55mm lens to copy transparencies or negatives.

[@davidhundley440]

Seeing all the images via a through camera view would have been very helpful.

[@fluffylambut]

Great video, thanks. I'm about to digitize 600 slides and many negatives. Have ES-2. Debating buying d5600, d7500 or z50 to do the job. Can I use Autofocus for this work? Hope so, would seem much faster. Also, is focus peaking (z50) hugely helpful for this job? My money not unlimited, maybe d5600 adequate. Your comments would be greatly appreciated.

[@indrajitadvani3742]

Thanks for this Vincent. Do you know whether I can use ES-2 with Nikon Z lens 50mm f/2.8 MC (macro)?

[@philipjooste5688]

Many thanks for this great video - I know I am very late to respond, however have a question: If the emulsion side of the negative film faces the lens when using the ES-2 (as explained in the video), this means that in post one needs to flip the image 180 degrees horizontal - but how do you do this in Nikon NXD or even Nikon NX Studio which does not seem to have a function to flip 180 degrees horizontal? Other raw converters such as RawTherapee offers 180 degree horizontal flip but would be great to be able to do so also in a Nikon native program. Any advice?

[@jamesrose1439]

Just watched and enjoyed your video on scanning with DSL and using PICTURE CONTROL, how to get a copy of the picture control settings you showed in the video?

[@gil_lbe2190]

It's in the description

[@RussDnB]

Your files are no longer available. Any chance of uploading them somewhere again? I've tried creating my own, (converting the curves), but I just seem to get a brown version of the picture.

[@gtsu1972]

Great tutorial, unfortunately the download link for the Picture Controls seems broken. Anyone knows where to get the profiles?

[@Mohnfisch]

Can you use this with any macro setup like a son a7 + minolta 55 macro?

[@fredred476]

Thanks for the video! I am wondering if you can change the orientation of the device a full 90 degrees, as well as just making fine adjustments (9:05), to allow you to take 'panos' of a slide or negative, to stitch together higher res files. Thanks in advance, Freddie

[@elbeethrie5140]

you may have to hanG it off a table so the slide has somewhere to Go w. o crashinG into the surface that the table is on, but as lonG as you're not breakinG shit.. DO EVERYTHING YOU THINK OF. =].

[@gil_lbe2190]

Thank you very much

[@mellove9594]

can i attach this to an olympus camera? (52mm lens)

[@stephenmcrae7237]

Why didn't you use the Negative Digitizer mode in LiveView in the D850 instead of having to apply the Picture Control profiles to invert the image?

[@tonyhayes9827]

Can I use the Micro Nikkor 55mm 2.8 AF lens?

[@Nivlekb]

What makes the Nikon ES-2 camera specific or lens specific? It looks like the ring size could be adapted to any filter size the lens uses. What about the Nikkor 60mm macro lens makes it compatible? Is it the fact that it's a macro lens? I have the Nikkor 105mm macro, would it not work also? I have a D200 and a D3s. I would assume either of them would work, am I wrong?

[@michelgirard9598]

I have a old Nikon Coolpix 990 and Nikon ES-E28 and i need help setting the camera to scan my slides

[@Cedness]

Hello, I just saw your video on the Nikon es-2 and I notice that unfortunately the Picture Controls offered for download are no longer available. Would it be possible to download them somewhere? Thanks in advance.

[@really3898]

Picture control downloads not on your site anymore. :( Can you make them available, please. Thank you

[@karankshah]

With the 40mm DX lens, does the whole 35mm film frame fit into the picture on a DX body? A bit surprising considering that there is no adapter ring required either.

[@MrMom950]

it has to do with the minimum focus distance / working distance of the lens... the digitizer was aparently made to place the film at exactly the right distance for the 40mm DX, then it includes the adapter to push the film out a bit for the 60mm 2.8G with the small adapter.. and then with the large adapter, push it out to the MFD for the 60mm 2.8D... So each adapter (or lack thereof) puts the film at the 1:1 minimum focus distance for each lens... whiere it would fill the screen

[@macmij]

Will the ES-2 work with an AF Micro Nikkor 60mm 1:2.8 D lens and a D800 body?

[@gregmiller9957]

Can anyone confirm is the inversion done with the Picture Control item Invert "MW MC NEG" is a proper algorithmic inversion that is "filmcentric" and not just like the inversion in Photoshop that is entirely wrong for a color film negative.

[@UFGator1972]

When I follow your instructions to extract the three files from the software Picture Control Utility 2, none of the files are shown. Can you tell us how to do it in more detail? Thanks.

[@Pictureline]

The download link is in the description. Click on "Show More" to see the full description.

[@acneubauer]

How much would you say is the quality better is i use the matte side instead of the shiny side of the negative ? Is there a percentage ? Like 10 % better ? Is it worth it to redo it if you have already shot the shiny side ?

[@AtlantaTerry]

The base side never was designed to be in the imaging path so I would suspect it is not optimal. Why not run some tests and see for yourself. Those results will be a guide to whether you need to reshoot or not.

[@bnkrazie]

How do you capture a color negative? It's doesn't convert the colors for me.

[@alexvd7841]

Hey, thanks a lot for your video! very helpful. Was wondering why is the ES-2 only made for the D850. Couldn't work with a D750 or even a new Z7 and the proper 60mm miro lens? (using the adaptor of course for the Z7)? Thanks in advance for your help

[@timothyhyde4565]

Does it work with the z7?

[@valvoisin1449]

Hi, Could you tell me , please, what is the grey carpet and where it could be possible to order one. I contacted Pictureline to ask them. They never answered me. Thank you

[@ghayesphoto]

OOps, cannot download Vincent’s Picture Controls to my Mac. Is there another link for MAC?

[@s25abc10301]

The download links listed under “Show More” and no longer working; they’re not clickable. Does anyone know how to get the provided Picture Profiles? Thanks!

[@Ricardo-SW]

No mention of the exposure time. We are told f/8 and ISO 64, but are we using auto exposure, in Aperture Priority, or are we using a manual exposure based on ETTR (expose to right), or... Matrix metering? Or.....

[@vincentversace8704]

Matrix is what I used.

[@eladbari]

*Does it work with the Nikkor 60mm 2.8D ?* And can you use a Canon DSLR with a Nikon adapter for that lens [instead of a Nikon body?]

[@DenisJust]

yes. The guy mentioned it and it's also in the specs

[@vincentversace8704]

This was designed specifically for the Nano coated macro lens nikon makes. Without Nano coating you do not get the full benefit of a sensor over 24.5MP. So if you are using a non nano coated lens (the 55mm Micro Nikkor) with the D850 you will only be resolving to about 24.5 MP

[@cannabisgoldsmith]

Hey Vincent, aren't you worried about the light coming out of that lumecube? Spikes or gaps in the light spectrum coming out of it? Won't that impact the final scans of color film and transparencies?

[@hellhated]

Would be interested in that as well. the lume cube 2.0 seems to have pretty good CRI value (>95), but I haven't see any comparisons against other light sources for negative scanning.

[@vincentversace8704]

@@hellhated you ca also use window light or sunlight

[@ericlawrie7044]

A Nikon LS5000 Coolscan produces a 4000 dpi image of a 35mm slide measuring 4000 x 6000 pixels at around 21 mbs. A camera scan with the ES2 and D850 produces a 8256 x 5504 pixel file at 45 mbs. Does this mean the camera scan image is better than the scanner file?

[@krisdoman7721]

Is there anything like this for medium format negatives? I have 6x6 negs I need to bulk scan.

[@Pictureline]

Sorry, we don't know of any kit for the D850 to scan medium format negatives.

[@garymorrison277]

Hi Kris, pentax make a fantastic looking one but its expensive I think £800 ....I'm thinking of getting a mamiya 67 and going to copy the neg's from it with my D810. But was thinking of making my own neg/ slide copier to use with the D810 but build it round a old 120 negative holder from a enlarged, in saying that it wouldn't be that hard to make a better one than the Nikon ES 2 using interchangeable 35 and 120 enlarger negative carrier's, black plastic pipes, of white plastic the stuff you get on a light box or better use one of those small battery powered light boxes and a old filter with the glass removed with a wee bit trial and error 🤔 and put the £120 towards a nikkor af 60mm f2.8 D.

[@AtlantaTerry]

I have the same problem but in my case 6x4.5cm, 6x6cm, 6x7cm, #611 camera negs and 4x5" sheet film. Here is what I plan to do: * Find various sizes of used film carriers designed for an Omega 4x5" enlarger (they have registration pin slots) * Set up a focusing rack that is centered on the 35mm carrier, then back up the camera for larger films * Mount a diffused light source behind the film stage (probably a LED with a CRI >90 or a small AC powered strobe) * Copy the films with my Nikon DSLR and one of my Micro-Nikkor lenses Terry Thomas... the photographer Atlanta, Georgia USA

[@CaravanCamera]

Get a copy stand and a macro bellows. Easy to do

[@tomwilson8380]

I tried to load the picture control file onto my D800 and each time it says 'no picture control file found on card'. I checked and the NP2 files are there. Do they not work on a D800

[@vincentversace8704]

Tom Wilson as stated in this KZbin video “this works with the D5000 through the D5 as well as the D850 which is what this device was developed for”

[@FromePublishing]

@@vincentversace8704 hi do they work with the Nikon D780 -- thanks

[@FromePublishing]

@@vincentversace8704 hi do they work with the Nikon D780 -- thanks

[@alhood01]

Can not find the downloads any links I have tried to find are no longer available. How were the profiles created?

[@kevanbarton1608]

I note in this tutorial that Versace refers to a folder that must be down loaded prior to doing anything in Picture Control Utility 2. So, where is that folder? Without reference to it via something like a link, the whole process he sets up is fairly stopped. Can you post that link? I note that UFGator1972 is having the same question, but without answer from you guys.

[@kevanbarton1608]

Click the above "Show More" as the link to the utilities is there

[@Pictureline]

The link is in the description.

[@AsRmNinemilli9]

does this exist for canon cameras?

[@a.k.8150]

The download of the picture control is no more available? What a pity.

[@pauldiming]

Does anyone have a link to the picture control files that works? The links in this vid description are not working for me.

[@timbuckleyvideos]

Are we meant to see the top of the camera and the screen at the back of the camera? He keeps saying "as you can see ..." . Very confusing. Maybe this is a later edited version????

[@JeffreyOakarPhotos]

How do we convert a negative to a positive in Lightroom?

[@benjaminsanders2038]

The download link for the three picture controls does not work. Can you please fix it.

[@TheJrbdog]

Is there any way to attach the E-2 to a Canon lens?

[@TheJrbdog]

@@robertoleos67 Canon hasn't had the sense to make one.

[@AtlantaTerry]

Go to eBay and buy a step ring for about US $5.

[@gauzee]

@@AtlantaTerry Would you give detail of your Canon setup? What lens you use, what step up ring (size), light source (natural or LED), and what settings. Thanks.

[@obguy99]

Can you please explain how I might use this with my Sony alpha Minolta stuff?

[@FantasticPyroclastic]

www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1556475/0

[@michaelseirer]

you mentioned that the 60mm is designed for the es-2, so the 105 does not work, correct? will it work with the 55mm micro lens (f/3.5)?

[@bisibela2701]

Michael Seirer this works with any camera and a 60mm FF equivalent macro lens . i use it with my Lumix G9 microfourthirds sensor with a 30mm macro (60mm in FF) in the high res mode with 80 MP RAW file.. great detail for big prints!

[@analogueypx5949]

@@bisibela2701 do you mean to say you use the same ES2 holder? Or does Panasonic make one for its line up?

[@bisibela2701]

Analoguey Px same holder with a step up ring to adapt to the front filter of the lens heres the setup... instagram.com/p/Bm_iASzB9Wq/?igshid=xtmt30saeioq

[@Spock105]

I like the system but can hardly find it a good solution to scan negatives - that is , in my situation . I have a lot of 35mm negatives and positives , but also have 120 format negatives - so no dice here for the 120's. Secondly : I have the D850 , good , but I have the Tokina 100mm macro - so also here - no dice . It would mean , I have to buy a 60mm macro , the ES-2 & then I still can't scan my 120 ones. So a good flatbedscanner will have to be a solution for me.

[@analogueypx5949]

I would've found it very helpful if there was a longer 'review' section with pictures on. It's very counter-intuitive to just keep hearing how it looks without actually seeing it in action. PS: not everybody sees this on a 50 inch screen, please do point to the menu option for those of us on smaller (phone/tab) screens!!🙏

[@AtlantaTerry]

Agreed. Vincent kept pointing to the camera and saying "you can see..." Ummm, no we can't. The video should have been edited to insert images to which Vincent was referring.

[@johnf.boline7151]

As a amateur photographer who is 72 years I don't have as much free time. I have posted My video slide copying adapter ES-1 card board adapter

[@macmij]

Is there a current active link to download the following: INVERT_BW_SD_NEG.NP2 Standard profile. Works for black and white and color. INVERT_MW_MC_NEG.NP2 Monochrome profile. Works for black and white and color. INVERT_BW_FLAT_NEG.NP2 Flat profile. Works for black and white and color. The link referenced above is not working.

[@johnpeasant4802]

Nice tips EXCEPT for one thing....I got a Lume Cube as shown and realized it really SUCKS for this purpose (poor CRI, temp that is > 6000K) which will throw off the color balance. So, if you don't want to spend a lot of time correcting for this (if even correctable), there are other brands with adjustable temp and CRI well into the 90s (or just going outside and taking a photo against bright sunlight works much better than this light source)

[@hellhated]

Hm, Lume Cube seems too have pretty good CRI value (>95) and 5600K temp (daylight). But not sure, haven't seen any comparisons yet of Lume Cube vs other light sources.

[@shang-hsienyang1284]

The link for "Vincent’s Picture Controls" no longer works...

[@JayGreezy]

I'm still waiting on someone to figure out how to use the 105 Macro with these because there HAS to be a way to do this, if its just focus distance involved. I don't want to have to buy ANOTHER $600 lens when I already own a $900 Macro lens....

[@Ricardo-SW]

And we are never told which of the 3 Picture Controls is used for what types of film, or what they do. What do the abbreviations in the names mean? How are we supposed to figure out which is the one to try first? And do the Picture Controls only work with the 850, or will they work with any of the designated models? The intent here is to be helpful, and it does to a considerable degree, but it is flawed.

[@larryschreiner]

“This is the user’s manual.” Hey, thanks.

[@bogdi55]

I don't know what you're trying to say but I'm sure you need to scan the non emulsion side of the negative and not the emulsion itself as you stated.

[@Channel_Yo]

Why not just use a lightbox instead of flash?

[@jeffellis6544]

Windsurfer LA - I’ve still got my 5000k light box from my film days. Full spectrum 5000k bulbs inside. Perfect for this.

[@peturhelgason7477]

I could not simply load the three profiles to my D750 as was done on the D850 in the video (you'll find the profiles at versacephotography.com/es2myneg/ ). From the D750 manual it seems it should be possible, but it didn't work. Here's what I did to make it work. First, format the SD card (Slot 1). Then open the SD card on your computer and create a folder called "NIKON" in the SD root and within that folder create a folder called "CUSTOMPC". (You can also create this folder on your camera by saving a modified Picture Control from the D750 to the SD card, which is actually the way I did it). Then the crucial bit: rename the downloaded profiles to PICCON01.NP2, PICCON02.NP2 and PICCON03.NP2. Then copy the renamed profiles to the "NIKON/CUSTOMPC" folder on the SD card. Now put the SD card into Slot 1 on your D750. Now open Menu, go to the Shooting tab and select Manage Picture Control, then Load/save and then Copy to camera. Now the profiles should appear with their original names (not the PICCONxx.NP2 names). Select the first profile, click OK and then select a slot for the profile (there are 99 slots). This should do the trick.

[@allys537]

this does not work on any recent camera besides the D850, it does not reverse color on the D750 D500 etc... Nikon must have changed it so you can't invert color curves. I have spent many an hour trying to get this to work on negatives captured with a D750, the Nikon Picture Control utility won't invert the colors.

[@sbest58]

Same issue with D7200 - Nikon Picture Utility does not invert colours

[@jeffellis6544]

Stephen Best - Lightroom can easily invert the colors to a positive. I click. You will need to Fine tune the color but it works fine.

[@martinball3928]

Nikon NX-i has picture control utility which allows you to invert the image to make a positive from the negative, as well as set the white balance point from the border before saving it to either the software or a card to transfer to the camera. This works fine with the Nikon Z7 NEF images.

[@filminrussia7095]

It so sad that it cant scan 35mm panoramas

[@chrismessner9751]

You can probably stitch them later.

[@Narwaro]

Schmutz? Was a little surprised about this German word in there but this seems to be actually used in English.

[@merlinmarquardt]

Narwaro Merriam-Webster's definition of "schmutz"www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schmutz

[@AtlantaTerry]

I have used the term for many years.

[@jeffellis6544]

Terry Thomas - you guys must not know any Jews or have them in the family. Schmutz is a common Yiddish term, especially with German or European Jews.

[@ravibindra565]

Showing us the screen would be better

[@DaveWatts_ejectamenta]

Nikon also made a couple of 55mm makro lenses, which are actually amongst their sharpest. That they don't provide an adapter for these lenses is annoying.

[@eladbari]

does it only fit a 62mm filter size? (while the 55mm 2.8 lenses are 52mm, right?)

[@DaveWatts_ejectamenta]

@@eladbari the AF one I have is 62mm, the AIS one is 52mm.

[@eladbari]

@@DaveWatts_ejectamenta so, basically, can't you use some kind of step up ring from the lens to the adapter? Or will it not cover the whole frame of the negative?

[@DaveWatts_ejectamenta]

@@eladbari well I'm actually using one of a nikon compact camera with step up rings. It has a nicer end piece for the negative support but for some reason doesn't center the negatives correctly

[@eladbari]

@@DaveWatts_ejectamenta i dont understand. Are you using the ES-2 negative adapter with a different lens other than the recommended lenses? (Just using a step up ring?) And do you get a full field of view for the whole frame?

[@roundtable25]

"TIMESTAMPS, DOWNLOAD LINKS, and PRODUCT INFO BELOW" Where wold that be?

[@jimgerace]

hit the "show more" button

[@BryceGarling]

If my math is correct, there are over 4,320,000‬ images in that storage. I don't think scanning all of those with that set up is realistic. I'd rather pay the $200.00

[@vincentversace8704]

Yes that is correct I have that many negs. I was a Hollywood headshot photographer fir lot of years. I have been come selective in what I have my assistant do. If you thin I am bad You see Jay Maisel's collection.... I owned a very successful headshot photography studio in Hollywood. I shot 6 day a week. I shot on average between 20-25 rolls of film a day six days a week. I dropped off the film on Thursday, picked it up on Monday. Spent all day Monday going over contact sheets. Certainly not something I miss. Did that for over 15 years. It was a lot of hard work. Having the luxury of being able to shoot that much made me the photographer I am today.

[@williamschultz8198]

Your making a digital image of a negative or slide (positive). Your not scanning anything.

[@Narwaro]

In case you did not know: LED lighting is utter crap. A strobe's spectrum is very close to that of the sun (a similar thing is happening in there) and it has a continuous spectrum but an LED only has a discrete spectrum by design with some peaks of wavelengths overlapped which is really bad. Think of it like that: You are shooting with a red, a green and a blue laser.

[@lastdrop26]

Narwaro interesting thought. I did wonder. Also I am not convinced that direct light into the camera is the best idea. If there are any scratches on the slides it might make them stand out more than a soft diffused light.

[@jeffellis6544]

terry staniforth - I’d use my 5000k Full spectrum lightbox from my film shooting days. Or set up a white color neutral piece of background paper and shoot flash into it. Like a copy stand setup. Shooting a few test frames to zero in the exposure would take very little time.

[@Blackmind0]

...schmutz?....is a german word..😁

[@michaelmarcus557]

Yiddish for "crappy stuff" on the surface of something

[@davidelkins9861]

Shmuts? WTF! Geez how to drag out a description....

[@XeroBritt]

Schumtz! Yiddish for dirt, grime, dust, etc....

[@renegrautstueck3468]

@@XeroBritt german: Schmutz

[@XeroBritt]

@@renegrautstueck3468 Yiddish is derived from German, yes...

[@ebouwman034]

6000 rolls of film a year? That’s almost 600 photos (over 16 rolls) a day every single day of the year. 🤥

[@quentinnewark2745]

Eric B seems high, but if he was a newspaper photojournalist, couple of assignments a day, certainly possible. I worked with lots of photographers in film era, they burned through it, it was the most unreliable (so you’d deliberately shoot your desired shot on more than one roll) and cheapest element. I remember doing a sunglasses catalogue for Polaroid, we shot 50 rolls a day...

[@vincentversace8704]

@@quentinnewark2745 I owned a very successful headshot photography studio in Hollywood. I shot 6 day a week. I shot on average between 20-25 rolls of film a day six days a week. I dropped off the film on Thursday, picked it up on Monday. Spent all day Monday going over contact sheets. Certainly not something I miss. Did that for over 15 years. It was a lot of hard work. Having the luxury of being able to shoot that much made me the photographer I am today.

[@hamadabdeli]

Sorry but you made it, very very very difficult.

[@52701970]

Ha ha, not really the proper way too clean a lens.