# Let's see your DSLR film scanning setup!

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**Category:** Digital Camera Scanning\
**Created:** [March 16, 2019, 3:36am UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/lets-see-your-dslr-film-scanning-setup/27 "2019-03-16T03:36:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![ArnoG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac8455/32.png) [@ArnoG](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/ArnoG)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/lets-see-your-dslr-film-scanning-setup/27/354 "2025-06-08T14:35:48Z")

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Hi all,

motivated by @Alain_Oguse, I attempted above (post 341) a simple privacy screen for a phone on top of my diffused light source and posted a video to show how effective this was. I then ordered some CineStill CS-LiteBrite+ sheets since that seemed purposely build to provide some collimation and increased brightness. I now tested these and frankly, the results are rather disappointing: Yes, it increases the light by some 25% or so, but it does not seem to provide any collimation (in contrast to CineStill claims). If anything, it makes the high contrast edges even worse (in my case). Here’s a video showing the effect to adding a CS-LiteBrite+ film on top of my light source:

In comparison, I re-tested also the phone “privacy screen” to make sure that what I showed previously was indeed correct:

Indeed, the high contrast edge definitions become less “smeared” using the privacy screen, but not so with the purpose-built CineStill sheets. So my conclusion is, short of doing proper collimation, to advice to purchase a phone privacy screen (they can be had pretty cheap for older generation phones) since this provides a cheap and simple way to increase the resolution when scanning with a diffused source. The one I used was made by JETech for an iPhone 6.1-inch and it seems a proper slab of glass (it had two of them in one box):

 ![IMG_1394](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/negativelabpro/original/2X/4/4291a3e3af697ef57bfac0259350cfdc543b06c0.jpeg)  
 ![IMG_1395](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/negativelabpro/original/2X/8/8a09de8378fa093978d051ba400d35f344aa50bb.jpeg)

One detail that was asked above is whether it works in both directions: Yes, when it’s placed on my phone, it blocks the view in all side directions. These screens do reduce the brightness somewhat, but that is easily countered by a longer shutter speed.

EDIT: Read also my post below: [Let's see your DSLR film scanning setup! - #356 by ArnoG](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/lets-see-your-dslr-film-scanning-setup/27/356)

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