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Digitising negatives with EM1 - grateful for advice

Started May 4, 2015 | Discussions thread
Diswantsho
Diswantsho Regular Member • Posts: 372
Re: Digitising negatives with EM1 - grateful for advice

I have used the same lens with a Panasonic GX1 to duplicate color slides, and it works fine.., no actually it works brilliantly.

But I am now myself busy digitizing hundreds of B/W and color negatives and I purchased a scanner for the purpose. It is just much more convenient, and the scanner driver already turns it into positive so the preview is easy to filter out what to scan and what not; and the final scan is already converted, dust removed and color corrected so I do minimal editing in post processing. I got the Epson V600 and I find it very capable.

Olympus recently added tethering support for the OMD-EM1 (i.e. to hook it up with a computer). I did not check, but if that software offers an inversion option, you might be in business.

http://app.olympus-imaging.com/olympuscapture/

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