{"id":12916,"date":"2014-09-29T06:58:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T13:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=12916"},"modified":"2014-09-29T06:58:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T13:58:13","slug":"fuji-q-and-scanning-aps-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=12916","title":{"rendered":"Fuji Q and scanning APS film"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FujiQ1_5000\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I’m sorry Wallace I’m afraid I can’t do that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That being scan APS film in its cartridge on a flatbed scanner.\u00a0 So my solution take a picture it lasts longer.\u00a0 Not everyone\u00a0will have \u00a0encountered APS film so here is a little recap.\u00a0 APS film is smaller than 35mm film and after developing and printing it is spooled back into its cartridge never to be seen again (That isn’t strictly true but when was the last time you took a roll of film in for re-prints). \u00a0Okay re-prints are where….. this could go on for a while so forget all that.\u00a0 APS film in cartridge, needs scanning ect. ect.<\/p>\n

The first thing that needs to be done is to get the film out of the cartridge.\u00a0 Start by removing the label \"APS-Scanning-7551\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Then crack the cartridge open \"APS-Scanning-7552\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0which will let you get at the little film nugget inside \"APS-Scanning-7553\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0 The images on film look like this at this point. \"APS-Scanning-7554\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Which may be cool and impress cell phone photographers but the orange mask necessary from optically printing the film makes everything look sickly not to mention the fact that the image is\u00a0a negative.\u00a0 The next thing is to take the pictures of the film, in my case I’m using a slide duplicator, a flash and the Pentax DA 35ltd macro lens all of which you should have laying around (or not).<\/p>\n

\"APS-Scanning-8008\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This yields a digital image that needs to be cropped and adjusted \"APS-Scanning-7347\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0It will be a different process depending on what software you are using but it can be accomplished\u00a0in Lightroom\u00a0by going to the tone curve and dragging the two ends vertically to their opposite corners this has the effect of making the image a negative which it already is which makes it a positive which is good, simple right?\u00a0 The next thing to do is then to drag the colour balance down to eliminate what is now a cyan cast.\u00a0 After this its a\u00a0basic matter of making adjustments to the image to make it look correct.\u00a0 I should add though that after the manipulation of the tone curve all the levels adjustments are reversed so\u00a0 things such as increasing exposure makes it darker, fun yes?\u00a0 After all that you should end up with an image that looks like this which will probably make you want to pick up a digital camera unless you feel photography should be a difficult process in which case carry on.<\/p>\n

\"APS-Scanning-7347-2\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t