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35mm negative digitising using the pixl-latr

pixl-latr Review – A Film Scanning Gadget for Someone Who Hates Gadgets – By Nick Davis

By Nick Davis / November 25, 2022 / Accessories / Leave a Comment

Let me preface this pixl-latr review with a confession that I am spectacularly impatient. I’m not restless, and I’m not in an unreasonable hurry. Those things are sort of incompatible with shooting film, right? If a task takes time, that’s fine. But I have no patience waiting for something that I don’t need to wait for. I don’t mind me slowing me down, but something else slowing me down will very quickly find itself in the bin.

NEWS: Omnar Lenses Brass E39 Lens caps & pixl-latr ‘Parts Kits’

By Hamish Gill / June 23, 2022 / News & Events / 2 Comments

As some (many?) of you might know, in recent years I have been working on two brands of photography products, Omnar lenses and pixl-latr. I have little bits of news about both brands today, so I thought I would share. Omnar Lenses Brass E39 Lens caps We have just launched our Omnar Lenses Brass E39 …

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Using a Mobile Phone And a Free App To Scan Negatives – By George Griffin

By George Griffin / March 11, 2022 / Scanners & Digitisation Devices, Workflow / 12 Comments

When I first got back into analogue photography back in 2015, the biggest problem for me was how do I get these analogue images into a digital format to post on either a blog, Flickr or Instagram. Yes, I could get the lab I was sending to, to scan the images but this was costly and also there may only be half-a-dozen images that are worth scanning plus I was developing my own B & W and so that needed to be scanned at home.

pixl-much-latr – delivering on a Kickstarter 22 months behind schedule

By Hamish Gill / July 27, 2020 / Philosophy & Reflections / 23 Comments

I’ve just started shipping pixl-latr – a product I launched on Kickstarter in June 2018 with an expected delivery date of September the same year. In short, I’m 22 months behind schedule. Despite that, I still have the confidence of a lot of my backers, and though it’s been extremely stressful, I’ve actually really enjoyed the process – for the most part at least…

NEWS: pixl-latr – for digitising your film with a digital camera – now shipping!

By Hamish Gill / July 24, 2020 / News & Events / 17 Comments

It’s been a fair old while in the making, but pixl-latr is finally shipping!

pixl-latr is a tool for aiding in the process digitising (digitally copying) photographic film with a digital camera. It does this by holding the film flat on all four edges and then diffusing and masking off a back light.