I didn’t expect this weird setup to be so amazing. The D800 film scanner! I mounted a 45mm tilt shift macro on the D800 and shot the film in between ANR (anti newton ring) glass to hold the 6×7 negative flat. Illumination came from an iPad. Tripod was a BH-55 from RRS. It’s important to have the iPad a little distance away from the negative, otherwise you’ll get the RGB pattern of the screen coming through. I focused on the grain in ‘live view’ to make sure that the image was in perfect focus. I have really brought the contrast out a long way because the D800 has such a lot of file data to push around. I’ve posted this image here before, but what you see here is a better scan for a gallery print being made this afternoon.
FULL SIZE IMAGE HERE
Please note that the negative had a weird dark bit at the top and unusual heavy vignetting, this is as it appeared with the V700. There is just a lot more resolution.
It’s interesting to see that there is still detail beyond what the D800 captured on a 6×7 negative at 100% in photoshop. Perhaps next time I’ll try a 3x panorama stitch from the one frame.
Here is what the same shot looked like from the V700 (less contrast obviously, but that has to do with different processing):
100% of the D800 film scanner image (on retina screens, 1600px wide):
