A film negative glowing on a light panel beneath a tethered DSLR

Film Tether: A Little Mac App for Scanning Film With a DSLR

This is part of how I scan film at home. If that’s something you’re looking to get into, the app in this post is just one piece of it. The full picture is in How I Develop and Scan Film at Home . My Canon EOS 7D had been sitting on a shelf for a couple of years, one of those cameras I’d moved on from but never quite got around to selling. It came back into use when I got into developing and scanning my own film at home, because it turned out to be a great camera for the scanning part. ...

July 23, 2026 · 3 min · Chris Cantey

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