I've been too busy to get out with my camera the last couple of days so I didn't have anything for today's Rainbow March colour. I opened a folder of images I have been copying from old slides and found this image I took of a harness racer (as luck would have it, in a purple coat) exercising his horse. The shot was taken on Kodachrome slide film in 1976 with my then brand new Canon AE 1, a camera I still have and occasionally use. It was the first of many Canon cameras I have used over the years and although I switched to Sony as my primary camera a few years ago I still have a Canon 70D which I use to copy slides and negatives.
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A fantastic image, and well done for persevering with slide conversions. My husband has done some, but found it very tedious. Can you reccomend a good machine to do this?
@busylady I use a Canon DSLR with a macro lens mounted on a tripod and pointed straight down towards a light box. For slides I simply place them directly on the light box, focus and shoot. For negatives I use a film strip holder to hold them flat and in place on the lightbox and photograph them with my camera. Then I take them into Lightroom and use a third party plugin called Negative Lab Pro to convert them into positives. The lightbox and negative strip holder are relatively inexpensive and easily available on Amazon. If you don't already have a macro lens and don't wish to go to the expense of buying one you could try extension tubes, also relatively cheap and available on Amazon. You would only need Negative Lab Pro if you wish to convert negatives. Its not cheap but they do have a free trial. Hope this helps. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
