slow film notes

Notes on shooting, developing and printing film, one roll at a time.

My budget scanning setup

June 7, 2026

The core is a secondhand 60mm macro lens on an old mirrorless body, a small LED light panel with a decent color rendering index, and a printed negative holder that keeps the strip flat.

Inverting color negatives is still the hardest part. I settled on sampling the film base and doing the rest by eye. It is slow, which fits the rest of the process.