lads i think i've asked this before but i lost which thread it was in. For digitizing your films with a camera (sorry even though i understand that a sensor works in a similar princible to a flatbed my autism makes so i cannot use the S word for this if i'm not using the machine), how do you determine exposure settings? full manual and calibrate to the light, or with a blank frame, or just auto and let the camera work its magic or what? i've been doing manual so far and it's worked ok, but the last two rolls i did i must have been way off on exposure on the frame i used to calibrate and everything came out overcooked. here's one of the better results just straight as i shot it, only edit is inverting the levels. it's too light/washed out and other photos were even worse. feel like the negative shouldn't be this washed out. Yes, my lazy ass could just go and set everything up again and run it through with different settings, but i could just ask here instead lol.