Do you scan your own film? If so, what’s your setup? Basically everything <$400 looks like crap from what I’ve seen.
>>4502991Spend the money on a small darkroom setup instead. You'll get so much more out of film if you actually make prints.
>>4502996It's even more expensive than sending it to a lab then
>>4503044You can get started printing 35mm film in a bathroom for like 300-400 doll hairs if you find a cheap enlarger. Look around local used markets for the enlarger. You can find them real cheap if you keep your eyes peeled.
I use an original Sony A7 + Canon fd 50 macro + Nikon es-1 for 135 / foam film holder for 120
Use an es-1 and shave down an empty slide holder and you can larp like a printer instead of being one
>>4502991I do, I'm using a (???) no name copy stand, with a Sunray Box III for the light source. It has 35mm and 120 film holders you can swap out. For the camera I used an olympus EM-1 mark ii in pixel shift mode, with the 30mm f3.5 macro, though I wouldnt reccomend this lens as even with the in-built corrections it vignettes pretty hard. Normally I use a 5D mark II with the 150mm f2.8 APO macro by sigma. Next I'll try the 150 on the olympus, hopefully that will work better. https://files.catbox.moe/70vlhz.jpg olympushttps://files.catbox.moe/ubjj3y.jpg canon
i bought the valoi 360 kit and built a copy stand
>>4503057This looks superb.
>>4503101Thanks anon. I forgot to mention what I was using to edit and touch up the scans, which is lightroom with negative lab pro. If you want any tips LMK.
>>4503057is pixel shifting worth it? is there any discernable difference... especially with 35mm?
>>4503312Comparing the m43 pixel shift on to the same setup with pixel shift off, yes there is a huge difference. You get a lot more resolving power. The question is, do you actually need that much resolving power for scanning 35mm film? In my experience, no, it just ends up resolving more grain. The photo I scanned in that example was taken on a modern autofocus SLR with a modern lens and kodak gold 200, and even still, the scanning setup is overkill. Anything past like 25mp is just gunna be resolving more grain. Maybe its worth it for medium format, idk, I haven't scanned any. The only thing you really lose by using it is storage space. If you have it, I would use it just because having such fine grain being sharp and visible is pretty cool, and I think it looks good, but I wouldn't go out of my way to buy a camera for that.
>>4502991Supposedly the Nikon Coolscans were really good but I don’t think they’re manufactured anymore. Plustek make a few but I only seem to hear mixed things about those, and the professional Noritsu scanners cost literally thousands of dollars. Is it even worth having a scanner set up at home or is it best to get a pro lab with a really high quality scanner to process your negatives?>t. film newb
>>4510347Ideally when negs are scanned, you scan them flat and export to a TIFF or Raw file to give more flexibility in post. If your exposure was slightly off, slight crop, things like that. The problem I ran into when I got started was labs charge out the ass for Tiff files and high res scans. Basic JPG scans are dog shit typically and leave little room for you to fix. I grabbed a cheap second hand epson scanner and its definitely not perfect, nor incredibly sharp. It's enough for my IG or Flickr posts but when I print my book later this year I'll go back and rescan with my digital camera. Attached is a scan of gold 200 on 35mm that looks just fine on a phone screen.
>>4503074here's my setup btw. i haven't looked in over a year, but i think the 360 is one of the better film holders if you want to do both 35 and 120
>>4510347There's also primefilm which I basically never see discussed here. I have an XA+ and now that I've used it for about a year and a half I'm pretty satisfied with it. Excellent slide scans, very good negative scans as long as the exposure is reasonable. Night shots and meh exposures don't always work with the inbuilt neg inversion profile so I end up scanning those as positives and then doing inverting/editing in darktable. The only complaint I have is that the automatic full roll scan feature has never worked for me, but they could be because I'm using busted 70s SLRs and not a digital brained plastic Nikon with an electronic frame advance mechanism that would make frame lines computer consistent.
>>4510473>Describe scanner>Forget to attach imageYeah anyway picrel is 800T that I scanned so you can judge for yourself
