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

heespharm · Feb 9, 2011

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 · Feb 9, 2011

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

MaximusM3 · Feb 9, 2011

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 · Feb 9, 2011

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

Alex Bishop-Thorpe · Feb 12, 2011

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 · Feb 12, 2011

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

ghostcount · Feb 18, 2011

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

heespharm · Feb 18, 2011

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

EASmithV · Sep 11, 2012

I do this with my crappy cell phone and a light table.

Newt_on_Swings · Sep 11, 2012

Holy thread revival! Lol

I also do this with a light box and an iPhone that's jailbroken with the invert colors sbsettings toggle. Very quick and easy to scan over negs. Not using a lightbox and just a LCD screen like an iPad you see the pixels. A opaque white plastic can solve that. You can also press a loupe to the camera to get magnified views.

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

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