My humble advice comes from a lifetime spent in photography, as both an amateur and a professional. My father was a professional, and he taught me to shoot. He also taught me darkroom skills, developing and printing, dodging and burning, etc. That was over 60 years ago now. Back then it was all manual, and one had to learn the essentials of photography to apply them successfully.

That experience equipped me to actually work in the field, running a photography department for 16 years at the third largest teaching hospital in the U.S. - Jackson Memorial.


I would also advise against 'digitizing' negatives with a camera mounted on a copy stand. For $229, you can get a decent scanner that will digitize photos, negatives or slides, and give a better result.

https://www.amazon.com/Epson-Perfection-Negative-Document-Scanner/dp/B002OEBMRU/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=film+scanner&qid=1620058180&sr=8-3

If you're digitizing a lot of negatives, it's a much better option.

Just my opinion, of course.


Regards,

Bob

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