{"id":1287,"date":"2016-04-06T13:29:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T13:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bristol-channel.org\/skomer\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2018-06-13T19:10:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T19:10:02","slug":"nitrate-digitisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/?p=1287","title":{"rendered":"Nitrate to Nikon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the basics of a small rig I am going to use to make digital copies of a small amount of Nitrate film found at the Cube Cinema a few years ago. The b\/w positive print dates from 1947 and appears to be a short Charlie Chaplin film.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1288 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/nitrate-to-nikon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/nitrate-to-nikon.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/nitrate-to-nikon-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/nitrate-to-nikon-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/nitrate-to-nikon-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>I am going to have to build a base with X, Y and 0 adjustment and the old enlarger stand really needs something better for the Z adjustment. The light source is an LED array mounted behind an enlarger light box which acts as an excellent diffuser.<\/p>\n<p>The camera is a Nikon 5300. I just bought a macro lens for this and the results look good. Each frame will be copied to highest res and size and combined into a moving image sequence.<\/p>\n<p>The photo shows an old Nikon Micro 55m F mount lens with extension tubes.<\/p>\n<p>The Debrie film mechanism gives very stable registration in tests so far.<\/p>\n<p>I will be doing each frame by hand as there is such a small amount.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the basics of a small rig I am going to use to make digital copies of a small amount of Nitrate film found at the Cube Cinema a few years ago. The b\/w positive print dates from 1947 and appears to be a short Charlie Chaplin film. I am going to have to build a base with X, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lab-activity","archive-loop-container"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nachleben.org.uk\/skomer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}