how i've been doing my contact printing..ipad + iphone

[heespharm]

So i wanted a rough way to see which shots i should enlarge or at least take a better look at... so I've been using my ipad as a light source and the iphone camera to take a look at it... now it isn't a very sharp way or high quality way but it gives me a rough idea... and it doesn't waste paper or time...

here's an example


photo by Heespharm, on Flickr


I guess another good step would be to place a piece of glass on top to get rid of the film curl that would make the frames on the sides less blurry

[Ian Leake]

Brilliant idea, and just what I need right now! Thanks for sharing it.

[MaximusM3]

That's a brilliant idea indeed..and it save the scanning time just to see which ones are worth printing. I have the glass plates from betterscanning.com, so they should be perfect for this. Thanks for sharing! Is there anything that the iPhone/iPad can't do? Viva Apple!

[Christopher Walrath]

Cool beans! Doin' it. Beats a piece of crap, dark noise scanner.

[Alex Bishop-Thorpe]

I used to do this with my phone and a light table, and it is really handy when you're on the go, but I quickly got frustrated not having contact sheets on file when I wanted to go back through my negatives later.

[heespharm]

Save the jpgs and date your archival sheets... That way you can just search by date

[ghostcount]

What app do you use to invert the negative? Do you still process the jpeg on the pc?

[heespharm]

Photogene... Just drag the left bar in the levels adjustment all the way right and the right bar all the Way left