# 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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**Author:** ![smorais](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@smorais](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/smorais)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 9:01pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/suggested-backlight-sources-for-scanning-film-with-dslr/130/278 "2024-10-27T21:01:09Z")

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I have a different finding after more testing. See:

> [@Roll Analysis - Q&A + Help](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/roll-analysis-q-a-help/6430/21):
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> I’ve had a love/hate relationship with NLP since I started shooting film last year. I love having many conversions come out fine, and that NLP offers a lot of ways to correct conversions and adjust them to my liking. I hate that many conversions come out with odd color shifts, and require too much time tweaking to get right. Last weekend I tried Film Lab for the first time and was surprised at how it “just works” with very little tweaking necessary. No sampling the film strip to fix the white ba…

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