Considering it has cost me less than a few hundred bucks to become the owner of five vintage film cameras (not shown in the link is my new Yashica Electro 35 GS Rangefinder!) and developing kit, I have been procrastinating over the purchase of a film scanner, as it would end up costing more than the initial outlay. So in a fit of DIY creativity I decided to create a kind of light box diffuser projector back light thing.

Pretty simple really. Just a shoe box, full of whiteness, with my SB600 on commander mode flashing through a hole in the top, the negative attached to a side over another hole and utilising the bright white light to present the image. My D90, with macro lens attached then takes a pretty picture and I spend a couple of minutes playing in Photo Shop to get the end product.

Of course they are crap images, but for zero outlay and a kind of cool effect, I'm really happy with the result.

Epson V500 on it's way as soon as I'm sick of playing with the box!