Lots of people get interested in shooting film and developing it is super fun. The downer comes when the new film enthusiast begins to face the problem of turning those negatives into useful photos. So you took pictures and the negatives look really cool, so now what do you do? This is where things get real confusing and often very expensive. The cell phone lightpad method you show here is a great first step toward negative processing. Actually, for some people who are only interested in sharing online or doing photo album prints, this may be all they'll ever need. Every year cell phones get better and better.

You are my KZread analog hero! Been getting increasingly nervous since impulse buying a cheap Rollei 35... I've been anxiously reading all the film forum gurus insisting that everything from DSLRs with dedicated macro lenses... to expensive flatbed scanners... would never be good enough! That I might as well throw the camera away now and forget I ever considered going back to film! And then I found you... with your iPhone and a tube of toilet roll! 😅 And you reminded me that all art is the result of working THROUGH and WITH the limitations you're landed with! Thanks... I needed that!

Thank you so much for this video bro! I was about to give up the ideia of developing my film at home when I realised the scanning part is the really expensive part! Cheers to you 🔥😎

Wow that was fantastic and way easier than I thought it would be

Omg I’m so glad I found this before buying an enlarger 😮‍💨

Wonderful and amazing ! :-)) Before inverting the colors, I suggest check and corect the white balance on an unexposed part of the film. Orange color mask characteristic of the negative will be removed. After then do the color inversion.

Worked beautifully! Thank you so much you saved me some coin 🥳

Wow beautifully simple. Thank you!

Thanks for Posting this information is very Useful.

well, you are my hero now :D i was looking at the photo scanners... none of them are cheap.

brilliant clip , must try it

If you use your phone as a light underneath the negative, leave a little bit of free space, then put your film onto a glass or acrylic, transparent or semitransparent plastic. That makes disappear all the dots on the screen of your phone. There are apps free of charge which make the screen pure white. --- do not forget to put the emulsion side of the film face up. This is the "rough" looking side.

@0rganizedreligion

Ай бұрын

Thank you

Thank You So Much❤❤ My mom have photos of her families from 60's. She really want to print it but our area doeasnt have that kind of shop that produce photo from filmstrip . So your video really help.🥰

@thefilmcameraclub8141

7 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

ohh wow I love that! coool!!!

That is SO cool!

Great stuff!

@thefilmcameraclub8141

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Wow you just saved me $100s of dollars.

Where did you buy your light source?

Pretty novel way to scan!

@thefilmcameraclub8141

2 жыл бұрын

I am glad you think so. I was pretty thrilled that it worked at all.

WOW THANKS

very helpful, thanks

@thefilmcameraclub8141

7 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Hey, man do link the light source you bought in the description.

Pretty neat process! I have some old B&W negatives to work with. Would you suggest the same process?

@thefilmcameraclub8141

3 ай бұрын

Should come out the same way.

What if you don't have light room or is there an alternative to light room ?

That's great idea when need to submit a draft. It is pity that for color negatives, for non compromised result, have to do more things.

i think there is a lot of overcomplicated nonsense going on tbh.....this is a perfect solution for those that just want to preview the film and choose what to do next.

@thefilmcameraclub8141

3 ай бұрын

Its simplicity makes up for how "not great" it is.

Great tips here. Really made it less cumbersome to understand.

@thefilmcameraclub8141

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Какой плотности должна быть туалетная бумага для качественной репродукции? За идею спасибо!))

3:09 Thank you man, understand me. How we can clear this.

Hey can you tell me what light source you are using? I want to try to get the same results on my negatives as you have done here, thank you :)

@thefilmcameraclub8141

Ай бұрын

Should be linked in the description :}

Thanks bro

@thefilmcameraclub8141

Ай бұрын

You are welcome

How do I do this in the mobile version of Lightroom?

Hi, thanks for the video. Can you share a link to the light you used please ? Thanks

@thefilmcameraclub8141

2 ай бұрын

Yes I can

Sorry. My click on like ended up hitting the thums down button. I really liked your video. Was very helpful.

Is there not a preset that can “flip” the negative and do all of the settings you mentioned in one click?

@thefilmcameraclub8141

Ай бұрын

I tend to simply edit one and copy paste on to the ohters.

Yes, you just need a little imagination. Great idea, really. Only instead of the toilet paper roll I would use something else.😂 Thanks for the video, a great solution and very inexpensive.

Big question, did you already submerged this with some chemicals?

@thefilmcameraclub8141

Ай бұрын

Yes you need to develop the film first!

Hello, what did you use to edit the photo thanks.

@tilu3303

8 ай бұрын

Don't need to edit if you enable your phone's Color Inversion mode before taking the picture. Look under Settings and Accessibility (depending on your phone).

I built a structure with LEGO that is the same size as the Negative.

@thefilmcameraclub8141

Ай бұрын

Fun how many ways there are to get the job done

Did you develop the film before scanning it?

@maxens_is_here

6 ай бұрын

Well, yeah, you need to develop it otherwise the light would just ruin it. I feel like maybe there was a language issue somewhere and I'm misunderstanding your question, though.

do i have to do something with the film first or can i just take it straight out of the roll and scan it?

@randallstewart1224

11 ай бұрын

Are you asking whether you have to develop the roll of film first? If so, the answer is - yes.

@hrejna

11 ай бұрын

@@randallstewart1224 yeah i was, thank you.

Hi! I really love film photos, but I don't have enough money to buy a film camera, so I only use filters on my phone. Recently, I bought Ektar H35 film, and I'm planning to scan my negatives using just my phone. My question is, won't the film negative get overexposed if I take it out of the film container and expose it to the light from my phone?

@band_nerd

11 ай бұрын

do NOT take the film out!!!!!!!! the Kodak Ektar H35 Half Frame Film Camera is Half frame. Depending on which film you used, the number of exposures is usually doubled. So for instance if you have a 24 exp, you would take pictures until your number dial said 48. If you had 36, it'd be 72. If you had 12, 24.... and so on and so forth. It takes Half the picture essentially giving you double the number of shots. As SOON as you are finished with your roll... REWIND it. do NOT take it out, as the film WILL be ruined by light and the images will be gone forever. Rewind the film until it says 0 on the dial and you hear a click from the film; you are done. Take it out, and it should all be in the canister. Then take it for processing. Develop normally. Once your lab finishes they should give you the negatives back. THEN you can scan them like this video shows.

@band_nerd

11 ай бұрын

depending where you live. Do NOT send them to Walmart or CVS or Walgreens!!!!

@crayonscrayolas

11 ай бұрын

@@band_nerd Thank you so much!! This is what other video doesn't include. They just show the 'scanning' process. So I was thinking I can simply pull out the film negative and scan it using a phone. Good thing I asked you! Thank you again!

Could this be done without using lightroom? For example just the iphone os?

@thefilmcameraclub8141

3 ай бұрын

Yes it could be done. I have edited many photo on myphone before a long time ago.

@T24596

3 ай бұрын

@@thefilmcameraclub8141 Nice, I'm doing that as well, seems to work fine.

👍👍

Isn't there an app that you can use to just take a picture of this to get the same results

@thefilmcameraclub8141

3 ай бұрын

I am sure there is but I don't know of it.

do i have to developed my film befor scanning? or just rip it out of the "filmbox"

@100mondschein

10 ай бұрын

You have to develop it before. Just ripping the film out will completely destroy/erase the photos.

@G1NJO

2 ай бұрын

@@100mondschein im such a newbe haha. thank u

What is the software you are using ?

@ButterflyCreationss

4 ай бұрын

Adobe Lightroom !

there are lots of apps to do the job and quicker and cheaper

@zeache4564

8 ай бұрын

Name them please.

What software did you use?

@mikaeljonsson4686

Жыл бұрын

Lightroom, he says so in the video.

@idothings6923

Жыл бұрын

Any free alternatives instead of Adobe Lightroom?

@thejacal2704

Жыл бұрын

@@idothings6923 Gimp

lightroom is not cheap so it's not the cheapest way of doing it.

@thefilmcameraclub8141

3 ай бұрын

Eh many photographers already have it but I get what you are saying.

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If you were to go to all of this trouble to get a positive digital image of such low quality, why wouldn't you just buy a cheap digicam instead? Or, just use the digital camera you had to buy in order to flip the film negative to a digital positive, in this case, your phone. Or course, that is the same question faced by anyone using this procedure, whether with a cell phone or a $4,000 digital SLR.

Hahaahah 😂 stop lol 😂 what's the point now lol 😂