r/wigglegrams • u/Disastrous_Wind_7243 • 18d ago

Is it necessary to avoid regular scanning and scan at home or is there a digital process that can still work? (Nimslo 3D)

Just got a Nimslo and want to send in my first roll. Seems like the rec is to avoid having them cut and scan, and try scanning at home since each frame contains two images. But is it possible to remedy this with a standard digital process? Like just chopping up the digital scans into two then feeding those captures into the animation software.

Honestly my first film camera so not totally sure about the process.

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u/bringbackDM2 18d ago

I use a flatbed (epson perfection v850) and the lomography digitiliza as holder. That way I can all pictures at once and apply color correction etc simultaneously. Then I cut them up using pixelmator pro (you just need software which allows layering) and choose the point around which I want to wiggle. Videoexport is done via ffmpeg

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u/PigeonMuffin 18d ago

I have my local camera shop develop only and leave my film (3D and regular) uncut because I scan all of it at home on my Nikon CoolScan 5000. Whatever scanning system you use, it will likely be designed to scan full frame photos, so you will have to do some digital slicing to separate the half frame images. Since I use photoshop to create the wigglegrams, I just slice the scans in half right in photoshop before I start putting together the gif.

Some shops will still scan your film if it’s full of half frame photos. Non-3D Half frame cameras are becoming more common now with the new Pentax 17. So shops should be okay with scanning your film. They probably won’t scan each each half frame images individually, they will just scan them as pairs. I would check with what ever shop you choose to develop with.

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u/PigeonMuffin 18d ago

Since you mentioned this is your first film camera, home scanning is quite a jump. It’s not as simple as slapping the film onto a flatbed document scanner. You either need a specialized film scanning machine, which can be very expensive on the second hand market, or you need to set up a whole film scanning rig using a DSLR and a backlit film mount. There are lots of resources out there on how to do this.