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Digitizing Color, Black & White Negatives and Slides Using a DSLR Camera

Learn the modern, efficient method of digitizing film negatives and slides using your DSLR camera and macro lens. Say goodbye to outdated scanners and hello to superior quality and flexibility. Join us to unlock the potential of your analog archives with cutting-edge techniques and expert guidance.

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  • 252 S Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA
  • 7 hours

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What you'll learn in this black and white photography class:

If you have an archive of film negatives and slides you are probably used to relying on a traditional scanner to convert the images into a digital format for archiving, posting images on a website and/or creating files for printing. Guess what, there is a better way!  Copy those negatives and slides with your DSLR camera and a macro lens.  It’s faster, easier, better quality and never goes out of date.

Scanners are old technology. They are slow, attract dust, and are a bit unreliable. Dedicated film scanners such as Nikon Coolscans and Imacon are no longer made and are very difficult to get repaired. Further, the software to support these devices is no longer be updated or supported, not to mention you can’t connect them to a modern computer anymore due to the evolutionary changes in cable connections.

If you are shooting film and relying on your local lab to provide scans, you are not getting a quality digital file due to the limitations of the 20-year-old, 6 mega-pixel sensors that are in every Fuji Frontier or Noritsu mini lab film processing machine.  Those sensors were designed to only capture enough digital information to be able to expose color darkroom paper with a laser at sizes up to 12×18 and only as an sRGB, 8-bit, JPG file format.

Using a copy stand system with negative holders that keep your negatives flat and illuminated with very high quality, evenly illuminated light sources with very high color rendering index, you can capture your valuable analog images and convert them to a digital format in fractions of a second and they can be Adobe RGB (1998) 16-bit RAW files.  You can even acquire full border cassettes to capture the edge-marking or what some call the “rebate area” of the film.

Bring your 35mm, Medium format and 4×5 film and using products from Negative Supply and a Canon DSLR Camera with a Canon 100mm Macro lens. Eric Joseph will demonstrate how you too can digitize your images far faster and with far better results than you could ever get from the old technology dedicated film scanners or flatbed scanners with film scanning capability.

Topics covered and class workflow:

  1. Capture images tethering in Lightroom
  2. Converting RAW files using a Plug-In program for Lightroom called Negative Lab Pro
  3. Processing the RAW files in Lightroom for output to print
  4. Printing images in our digital lab up to 13×19

Refund Policy

Refund Policy

A $25 administrative fee will be charged on all refund requests.

  • The request must arrive greater than 7 business days prior to the course start date.
  • No refunds will be provided for requests arriving 6 business days or less prior to the course start date.

All refund requests must be submitted via email to [email protected]

Note: Special Guests Workshops carry different refund policies. Please refer to “Special Guest Refund Policy” sections below.

Upon receipt of a refund request, students will be provided the option of receiving course credit towards the purchase of another course. If a student elects to receive credit, no administrative fee will be charged. All credits must be used within two years from the date of issue.

Refund Policy for Rare Circumstances

In light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, we are revising our refund policy for “Rare Circumstances.” These circumstances may include, but are not limited to, pandemic outbreaks, natural disasters, and economic collapse/depressions. During troubling times such as these, refunds are not permitted. Instead, students will be given credit good for three years from date of issue. Credits are good toward any class or workshop, except travel.

Credits

Credits may not be redeemed for refunds or cash back. A student’s decision to receive credit in lieu of a refund is final and may not be changed at a future date.

Transfers

Students may elect to transfer applicable course fees towards the purchase of another course, limit of one transfer per class. All transfer requests must adhere to the refund policy noted above and/or in conjunction with Special Guests Workshop refund policies below.

Course Cancellations

On occasion a course may cancel due to low enrollment or unforeseen instructor conflicts. If such a case occurs, all students will be refunded in full. We do not take responsibility for non-refundable airline tickets, hotel expenses, or any other costs that may be attributable toward enrolling in a course.

Special Guest Refund Policy

  • A $75 administrative fee will be charged on all refund requests arriving 62 business days or greater before the course start date.
  • If the request arrives 32-61 days prior to the course start date, 50 percent of the applicable workshop fee will be retained.
  • No refunds are provided for requests arriving 0 – 31 days prior to the course start date.

All refund requests must be submitted via email to [email protected]

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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The Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP), a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable organization, is a photo center devoted to advancing the skills and increasing the personal enrichment of photographers of all experience levels and ages. The organization offers nearly 150 photography classes and workshops...

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