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I was recently given the task to digitize transparent slides from the 1960s. The color transparency slides posed an interesting problem. Conventional scanning was difficult because the slides are small and are designed to be back-lit by a projector. There are dedicated devices available that can scan film negatives, but they are expensive and difficult to find. The standard scanner that I had wasn’t sufficient for the task because it couldn’t resolve enough detail in such a small area (it was 1200 dots per inch maximum).  You can find many of the items used here: Kit.co product collection I created a DIY digitizer with: LED lamp to act as a backlight. The color of light from this lamp is close to daylight. I don’t know what color of light these slides are designed for, but this was my best bet. Cardboard and tape for the slide holding structure and various simple tools to form that. Two camera flash diffusers to even out the light coming from the LED lamp. A DLSR camera at 14 mega-pixe...

I noticed a website http://www.ninjapizza.net/ by Rosemary, aka Roseangelo. She was having a comic coloring contest with the default prize of everyone getting a piece of film from the first Ninja Turtles film promotional video. As I’m a big fan on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles since childhood, I couldn’t pass that up (even though I don’t really color or draw). Radical! Pretty cool, isn’t it? The top two frames are Donatello getting ready to eat a piece of pizza and the last three are the group inside April’s antique shop getting ready to fight the Foot clan (Raphael is injured). Many thanks go out to Ninja Pizza for the film!