Digitising The Film

In order to capture the 35mm film digitally I shall be using a Nikon 35mm slide scanner, this will only capture one frame at a time but will hopefully not impact on the handmade emulsion through scratching, as the emulsion is very fragile.

I have tested this equipment by scanning a 35mm film strip from The empire strikes back (Kershner 1980), the results are fine but I will need to edit the images after scanning them in order to make them visible.

The empire strikes back (Kershner, 1980)

With the film strips now developed it is time to digitise them, the images have not come out a clear as I would have liked but there is plenty of shape and contrast to what is on the film. I predicted that the image would be unclear due to the experimental nature of inconsistency through DIY emulsion and processing.