Mount your Kodak Disc camera to a light box or some other light source. Connect a digital camera with a macro-zoom lens to a tripod and point it toward your Disc negatives. Zoom in on the photo you want to scan and focus it clearly in your digital camera’s viewfinder.
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How do you scan disc negatives?
Connect a digital camera with a macro-zoom lens to a tripod and point it toward your Disc negatives. Zoom in on the photo you want to scan and focus it clearly in your digital camera's viewfinder. Repeat for each photo you want to scan. You can rotate the Disc negative to make this process easier.
How do you scan from a Kodak Disc camera?
Mount your Kodak Disc camera to a light box or some other light source. Connect a digital camera with a macro-zoom lens to a tripod and point it toward your Disc negatives. Zoom in on the photo you want to scan and focus it clearly in your digital camera's viewfinder.
How do you scan old Kodak negatives?
Open your scanner's software and go into the "negative scanning" mode. Scan the negatives and crop them in a photo editing program. Because your negatives are in a circle around the Kodak disc, you will also have to rotate many of them.
How can I tell if a Kodak Disc is white or black?
Left: A preview showing 3 Kodak discs on the scanner. Note the difference in color balance between each. Also note the plastic axle of the disc resulting in a lot of white area while the surroundings of the disc result in a lot of black area, thus making a precise white/black point determination difficult.
How long does it take to scan a 64x64mm area?
A 16125x16125 pixel multipass (x2) scan of a 64x64mm area at 6400dpi (the direct maximum of this scanner) takes about 4 hours in VirtualBox. As for the quality: large formats B&W negatives turn out excellent, but they always do so that's hardly a good criterion. On the other hand, tiny negatives such as the kodak disk show all the defects of small negative areas. Some kind of colored bleeding between dark and light is visible on ~2 pixels of width.
How many slides can a scanner hold?
The scanner comes with a holder for 4 slides, two 6-frame 35mm film holder and a holder for 120 film (two 6x6 or one 6x9 or one 6x12). You can also use the whole surface which is about 7x24cm in transparent mode. There is no 110 or Disc holder.
How many pixels are in a 32 bit image?
Very limited software, the 32 bit version has an image width limited to 37768 bytes (4721 pixels in RGBI mode).
How to cut off the inner core of a disk?
Cut off the inner core of the disk with a utility knife (*) Place 3 disks (or as many as your scanner can take) in the transparency area of the scanner. Do a preview. Do a manual crop 64x64 (in mm) and place it over the first disk, zoom in if necessary.
How many front buttons are there in Linux?
There are 4 front buttons which don't do a thing by default in Linux but can be programmed to customize Vuescan. It's a shame Sane doesn't work out of the box as it would be nice to be able to scan directly to email.
What coordinates do you use to cut a partial scan?
Also write down the coordinates of the "^6" and "^11" contact points (or any other such point as appropriate if you work on a partial scan). It doesn't matter which points you use, but using ^1 will start the cut at that image, and using ^1, ^6, and ^11 will result in the most precise cut.
Why cut out the center of a disk?
So finally I opt to cut out the center of the disk for 2 reasons: avoiding white point issues, and bringing the negative closer to the glass so as to have a more precise focus (yes, the 2mm thickness do make a difference on this scanner).
What does "develop" mean in film?
We’ve noticed that the word “develop” is often used to describe the service of printing and/or scanning negatives, when in the past it meant the chemical process to reveal the images on the film after having been exposed in the camera . Disc film developing is something we do but we also do Disc film scanning and Disc film printing. If your film looks like this…
Can disc film be color?
Disc film often doesn’t accelerate well into color. Processing into B&W negative will always be the safest bet.
Can you use a B&W negative for film?
Film will be processed in the safest possible manner – B&W negative – to give us the highest chance of salvaging an image. If you’d like your film in color, we can attempt that too but only after first processing safely into B&W. See “Film Acceleration” below for details . The negative is then scanned and manually Photoshopped image by image — an important step that goes a long way to improving faded, long expired film. The images are then uploaded to a private gallery for client viewing.
Do we charge for processing if a film turns out blank?
Remember: we do not charge for processing if a film turns out blank or without recognizable pictures.
