Like, it says, i made the perfect home film scanner. But my god it's not perfect.... but it still works great. I've also been constantly corrected that I'm not actually "scanning" and more "digitizing". I don't necessarily care about the semantics as long as it gives me good "scans".
What was more surprising were the people who claimed that an image isn't valid photography if it isn't a fully analog process. Now I understand that darkroom printing is a special process. I had a black and white darkroom in my basement when I was a teenager. But to completely disregard a print from a digitized image is insane... especially since, last I heard, there is only one colour film lab in my country.
Anyways, here's the video that kick-started my YouTube channel's growth:
Some things learned since posting this video is that getting the camera directly overtop the negative is super simple if you use a mirror on the scanning surface. When the reflection of the camera's lens is centered in your frame, your camera's sensor is perfectly "co-planar" with the scanning surface.
*insert mind blown gif*
I built this scanning setup with stuff i had laying around. BUT if i didn't have an old film enlarger to modify, I'd simply get a 12x16" (roughly) piece of 3/4" plywood and attach a 3/4" steel pipe flange in the center near the back and then get a length of 3/4" black steel pipe to screw into the flange.
Then I'd simply attach a small ballhead to a Manfrotto Super Clamp or mafer clamp and clamp that on the pipe.
Super cheap. Although if you don't have a mafer clamp, they're a bit pricey. But you should have a few in your kit regardless.
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