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Iv'e put together and pulled apart arious versions of this rig, all worked relatively well, but now I'm waiting on an ebay item to help hold the slide copier to the rail more squarely/securely (blutac and cableties previously)
Next iteration will use similar rail and L brackets, with the slide copier attachment on the end (it also has a slot for feeding negatives that is perfect: flattens the neg, has a diffuser, and can be adjusted up and down.
Not sure if I'll use a Metz Mecablitz 58 AF-2 Flash for it's P-TTL, which i suspect will be useless becasue other TTL flashes have been incorrect in exposing to the right/left when they actually need to do the opposite.. because *negative*.. and *inverted*
..or if I'll use the metz or a Yongnuo YN560IV and in manual mode - which seems a lot more likely based on previous test runs.
Theres only a few bits that aren;t quite ideal in my rig so far, but when it isn't 30C+ and I'm sweating a bit less, and all the bits arrive, and i get motivated to feed it ~4000 35mm negs.. i'll assemble something and begin testing and then digitizing again.
I figure I'll use RawTherapee and its HaldCLUT system of correctly inverting negative values.
But it's propensity to force highlight compensation on - and make everything pastelly and flatter - was shitting me enough to start using DarkTable for my regualr non neg photos a few months back, so I'll have to see how useful DT is with inverting negs.. probably just with curves. Which is sort of tedious.
