Scanning photographic slides with Lego
Channel: Neil Fraser
Date: 2023-05-02

I had several boxes of old slides to transfer into digital photos.  My setup uses two phones (one as a backlight, one as a camera), a bunch of Lego, and some basic photo editing software (Google Photos).

The lower light box section is made of white Lego bricks to maximize reflected light.  The upper photography section is made of black Lego bricks to minimize reflected light.  Many of the slides were from the 1970s and had significantly colour-shifted, requiring rather aggressive corrections.

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