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I found a video of someone scanning 35mm film with a microscope.
@atticdarkroom’s recent video is an experiment I’ve been meaning to do but never quite got around to. In it, he compares various scanners and demonstrates a relatively cheap method of adapting a digital camera lens to a microscope.
Of course, simple ideas can become complicated quickly, as is the case with this scanning setup. Because a microscope can view only a tiny area of the film strip, it needs to be shifted precisely and methodically over the entire area, and the resulting images would need to be stitched digitally. @atticdarkroom made each shift manually by twisting knobs with the numbers on them. Not to forget wet mounting, adapter lens aberrations, and vignetting — it’s a lot!
Pretty happy someone did this, yet I still wonder about more powerful microscopes, like the ones used in this study: videopreservation.conserva…
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