Building a Better Film Scanning Lightbox | Film Photography

Welcome to The Visual Center! In this tutorial, we'll show you how we built a DIY lightbox to be used for film digitization with a mirrorless camera. Follow along as we build the next item in our film digitization series.
By using a mirrorless camera, we'll demonstrate how to capture high-resolution digital scans of your film negatives or slides. You'll discover the power of digital technology in preserving and enhancing the timeless moments captured on analog film. Watch for Trent’s next video all about lenses for scanning film.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:44 Lightbox’s are too expensive!
1:41 Light source requirements for film scanning
4:47 Materials for the build.
6:06 Disassembling the original lightbox.
8:02 LED Module layout
9:33 LED Test
10:12 Installing LEDs into the lightbox
11:37 The final product, a lightbox for him scanning.
12:02 Cost of the project and materials list
12:55 Benefits of building your own lightbox
13:21 Closing and next video… lenses!
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Materials List:
Apollo Portable Lightbox - $17.50
Waveform Absolute Series LED Modules - $ 159.00
www.waveformlighting.com
DC Power Supply - $ 59.00
Barrel Plug Adapters - $ 8.95
Electrical Wire
Double Sided Tape - $ 10.00
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[@SidneyPratt]

Thanks.

[@artharutunyan]

Thanks for the video. DO you use 5000k or 6500k modules?

[@Yosser70]

Thats a cool build mate. Have you seen the Cinestill cs-lite? It’s cri95 but got different color modes, depending on what stock you’er scanning. Costs about $40!

[@anthonykent8561]

Do you know if the diffuser that came with the box is color corrected?

[@paiute6911]

Hey buddy what gauge of wire are you using?

[@curtishalley2481]

Any experience with Flexfire? They claim 98 CRI but quite a bit cheaper than the Waveform ones - plus you get a whole roll. Just wondering whether anyone has tried these, or if they’re doo-doo?

[@SidneyPratt]

Even lighting has always been a problem. Thanks.

[@paulwomack5866]

A more accurate title would have been "Upgrading the light source in a broken lightbox"