{"id":1887,"date":"2016-12-25T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2020-12-13T07:12:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T06:12:04","slug":"how-to-use-an-android-device-as-a-light-box-for-slides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2016\/12\/25\/how-to-use-an-android-device-as-a-light-box-for-slides\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use an Android device as a light box for slides"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today a small how to for photographers and enthusiasts in need for a light box to view slides (transparencies) or old photo negatives. Semi professional photographers own a light box (or a light table) to view slides. But you can use your android smartphone or tablet pc for this purpose.<\/p>\n

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Recently I was in need to digitalize some slides for my (German) Japan blog<\/a>. My old HP Scanjet 4470C-Scanner<\/a> with an adapter to scan slides has been out of order due to lack of Windows 7 WIA drivers. In normal cases I use a slide projector<\/a>, to draw the slides to a shoe box covered with a white paper sheet. Then I use a digital camera, to that a photo of the projected slide. But that is time consuming, I need to unpack the slide projector within a dark room, and take my digital camera on tripod. My idea was, to use a smartphone and an app, to use it as a light table (light box) for my slides, and take a digital camera to create digital copies of my slides. For web publishing the resolution should be good enough  \u2026 <\/p>\n

I found the Android app Lightbox<\/h3>\n

\"Lightbox\"<\/a>Searching Google Play Store, I finally found the app Lightbox from SeanR Software. The app promises to control the display of an android device as a white screen – light table, or flashlight. The app provides a full screen white display with a slider to adjust screen brightness. There is a free version of this app, so I gave it a test run. It's sufficient to launch the app on your Android device and place a slide on your devices display. <\/p>\n

\"Lightbox <\/p>\n

You can use the slider to adjust the brightness. To view slides (transparencies) or photo negatives, it's sufficient. But my initial idea to use the Android device a a light table and take a digital camera to digitalize the old photos wasn't possible. The display of an Android device is causing a fine grid, and also the photo sensor of a digital camera is build as a grid of pixel. This is causing Moir\u00e9 patterns within the digital image, so the result is useless. <\/p>\n

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