# Suggested backlight sources for scanning film with DSLR

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**Category:** Digital Camera Scanning\
**Created:** [March 27, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/suggested-backlight-sources-for-scanning-film-with-dslr/130 "2019-03-27T18:58:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 2:07pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/suggested-backlight-sources-for-scanning-film-with-dslr/130/235 "2024-01-14T14:07:00Z")

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You might be interested - or not - in a few thoughts about LED panels and diffusors.

> [@Bright edges around 35mm Scan - What is the reason?](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/bright-edges-around-35mm-scan-what-is-the-reason/7290/9):
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> Had a look at your correction frame with “Digital Color Meter”, an app that comes with macOS: The frame has a falloff that ± corresponds to the bright edges in your first sample screen. The falloff seems to not be important enough for Lightroom to recognise it when you tried flat field correction…which is a pity because one would assume that FFC can also correct minute differences. According to what I found in respect of FFC, I assume that you took the reference frame with the same settings …

The generic part is below what is shown in the excerpt above…

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