Apple new QD displays as the light source

[Harry]

Hi there, welcome to the forum. There are people on this forum that know a great deal about light sources so I hope they see and respond to your post. Since this is the NLP forum I imagine that you are thinking in terms of copying colour negative and using NLP, and perhaps you are making the association with those clearly defined peaks on this new MacBook Pro and the concept of using individually controlled R,G & B LEDs with perhaps an integrating sphere.

Have you seen this thread?

Suggested backlight sources for scanning film with DSLR

Nate Weatherly posted a pretty thorough reply to a post on Facebook with generic recommendations for light sources that would work better than LED plates such as tracing panels etc. I know @Richard1Karash has done a pretty detailed comparison of different light sources as well. Perhaps it would be a good idea to make a separate thread with information about specific products that are known to work well for various setups (vertical “copystand” type setups, horizontal rails and bellows type setu…

Lots of information there although I don’t recall anyone using Macbook Pro screens as a light source, rather it might be a relatively recent Iphone or Ipad which can be very good I think. One possible disadvantage is that I don’t think that NLP is ‘tuned’ for separate RGB light sources but only Nate can really comment on that.

Edit: I see that the Ipad Pro has something similar.