My Super 8 film Scanner

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I’m glad to be in the testing phase of my journey into building a scanner for my family films. I realized that I was digitizing the back side of the frame, whereas I know from digitizing 35mm and 120 film photos that you should handle the emulsion side for the best quality.

I’ve made some adjustments and I’m getting much better results, as expected. When I thought about it, it actually seemed quite logical. I won’t make this mistake again as a rookie in scanning Super 8.

I also get better defined contrasts now, as they should, and it looks much better to me when I watch it in front of my TV.

Test S8 - 1-3
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Very good results.

May I suggest to check that the illumination is even? It may be the film itself, but I noticed the upper left side corner seem darker than the rest of the frame.

The quality of the pictures is great.

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I think that’s the movie itself, but I’ll take a look at how the light falls in the film gate :slight_smile:

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