in the meantime teeth While it is possible to convert film negatives to digital image files using a DSLR, this can be a rather tedious process. The Valoi easy35 is designed to make your task much easier as it attaches directly to your camera’s macro lens.
Usually, when a photographer wants to convert analog negatives to digital, they send them to a lab, buy a flatbed scanner, or take pictures on a DSLR.
In the latter process, the negatives are usually placed in a lightbox overlooked by a hardmount camera. However, it may take some work to align the negatives and camera precisely. Additionally, other light sources in the room can reflect off the surface of the negative.
That’s where easy35 comes in.
Invented by Finnish entrepreneur Arild Edvard Båsmo, it consists of a box containing a diffuse LED backlight and a negative retention film gate connected to a third-party macro lens via a series of stacked aluminum tubes. It has been. Needless to say, the lens is attached to the user’s DSLR or other type of interchangeable lens digital camera.
When utilizing the device for the first time, the user will combine as many tubes as needed to provide the proper focal length for the specific lens being used. Then simply turn on the box’s backlight, twist the box until the film gate display is level within the camera’s viewfinder, slide your negative into the gate and take the picture.
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According to Båsmo, the negatives are kept perfectly flat and parallel to the camera’s image sensor, have no vignetting, have no glare issues, and cover the entire frame of each image.
As the name suggests, the easy35 is designed for 35mm negatives. However, the plan is to provide an adapter further down the line that will allow scanning of 35mm slides. The LEDs were chosen with this function in mind. This is because it can be set to a warm color temperature for slides (made to be projected through a tungsten bulb) or a cool color temperature for negatives.
If you’re interested, make sure Valoi easy35 is currently eligible for an Indiegogo campaign. Assuming it reaches production, you can get one for a US$149 pledge. Planned retail price is $214.
It is demonstrated in the following video.
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Source: Indiegogo, Valoi
