burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Been there, done that, back in high school, for home brew holiday cards. It works pretty well for black-and-white. For color, you need good lights.

Doing it was part of my job for many years. Making slides for meeting support involved lots of copy work. After years of that, I got into managing a team that used a 14-foot overhead graphic arts beast camera to make internegatives of paste-ups of prints for classroom composites in the school portrait lab. We made about a quarter million composite contact prints a year from around 12,500 large internegatives. It was loads of (NOT) fun. Digital technology made it MUCH easier. It improved quality, cost, and speed tremendously.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I did use color film. albeit a slower shutter maybe, but it worked well.
Nothing was moving.

BebuLamar

Good light doesn't mean a lot of light it could be light with good color spectrum especially if you use film.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I was more intent on getting the copy than having them perfectly match the faded colors in the old prints exactly.

But hey, some people have different desires, requirements, and methodologies.

BebuLamar

I was in a computer store in the 80's. I saw a TI-99a running a demo program in basic looked cool. I had a TI-99a at home. I had my Nikon F2 with me at the time and I stopped the computer. Do the program listing and took a few screen shots. I had to do it rather quickly before the salespeople wonder what I was doing. Had he film processed and typed in the program on my computer and it worked.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States