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A Better Light Source for Scanning Color Negative Film


A Better Light Source For Scanning Color Negative Film

Digital camera sensors are designed to capture light in a way that allows for a faithful reproduction of the colors that humans would perceive (this is a gross oversimplification.) Edward J Giorgianni and Thomas E Madden, Digital Color Management: Encoding Solutions, 2nd Edition Robert L Shanebrook, Making Kodak Film To diffuse the light, I designed a 3D printed enclosure to hold a stack of optical films similar to what is found in the backlight of an LCD display.

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