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I want to scan 35mm film at home with my a6000. Got the macro lens done a few tests but I have trouble with the light source. All the lightboxs I've seen are led so you can see the leds behind the film or the plastic that the film sits on isn't perfectly smooth so you can see the bumps and grain of the plastic. just wondering if there's a cheap one or I can make a good one. I've looked at the scanners for 35mm film but there quite expensive and don't give out very big files
 
I use a Cabin CL-5000L lightbox.

Not cheap but guaranteed colour temperature (if you can still buy them).
 
you can buy a second hand good quality flat bed for well under £100 that if you take your time will give reasonable results, you can also buy "slide copiers" that have a t2 mount you could adapt. there isnt a huge point to mega big scans at home, if you want the best quality pay for wet mount drum scans to be done other wise some of the flat beds give good bang for buck at home
 
niko said:
you can buy a second hand good quality flat bed for well under £100 that if you take your time will give reasonable results, you can also buy "slide copiers" that have a t2 mount you could adapt. there isnt a huge point to mega big scans at home, if you want the best quality pay for wet mount drum scans to be done other wise some of the flat beds give good bang for buck at home
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I do agree but I'm just getting into it so I wanted it to be as cheap as possible at the moment. If I stay with it going to invest in something
 
Epson Perfection V500 is good and can be got for about £50 but for a cheaper version. as i mentioned look for a T2 mount slide copier should fit your dig cam with an adaptor. trying to take pics on a light box is a pain with the colours and with holding the negs flat. if its just the odd film your doing then paying for a lower rez scan might work out ok
 
niko said:
Epson Perfection V500 is good and can be got for about £50 but for a cheaper version. as i mentioned look for a T2 mount slide copier should fit your dig cam with an adaptor. trying to take pics on a light box is a pain with the colours and with holding the negs flat. if its just the odd film your doing then paying for a lower rez scan might work out ok
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The v500 is 6400 dpi, what megapixel size would a single 35mm frame come out as with that? I do like to print fairly big when I do print, I also give them away as presents so I would like as big a file as I can get
 
Off the top of my head, I think the largest 645 scan (medium format) without interpolation is 6000x4000 which works out around 24Mp.

You won't have any issues printing large from a V500 scan unless you regularly wrap double decker buses ;0)
 
stevelmx5 said:
Off the top of my head, I think the largest 645 scan (medium format) without interpolation is 6000x4000 which works out around 24Mp.

You won't have any issues printing large from a V500 scan unless you regularly wrap double decker buses ;0)
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Just been looking up the v550, looks pretty good actually. Is there an optimum dpi for 35mm film? I read that 4000dpi is the most 35mm can do so don't go higher?
 
Ben johns said:
I want to scan 35mm film at home with my a6000. Got the macro lens done a few tests but I have trouble with the light source. All the lightboxs I've seen are led so you can see the leds behind the film or the plastic that the film sits on isn't perfectly smooth so you can see the bumps and grain of the plastic. just wondering if there's a cheap one or I can make a good one. I've looked at the scanners for 35mm film but there quite expensive and don't give out very big files
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Use a Tablet, Place a piece of glass over the Tablet raised on something like Blue-Tack in the corners, place the film on top of that and copy using your camera & macro lens etc. Because the film etc is on top of the raised glass you'll not see the imperfections of the Tablet screen or the pixels of the Tablet. "Job Done"(y)

George.
 
Ben johns said:
Just been looking up the v550, looks pretty good actually. Is there an optimum dpi for 35mm film? I read that 4000dpi is the most 35mm can do so don't go higher?
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if you have a look over in the film section of this forum there are a few threads on this subject that give way better info than i can,there is a lot of info on just this subject.
there isnt a whole lot of point in scanning 35mm very high
 
G.K.Jnr. said:
Use a Tablet, Place a piece of glass over the Tablet raised on something like Blue-Tack in the corners, place the film on top of that and copy using your camera & macro lens etc. Because the film etc is on top of the raised glass you'll not see the imperfections of the Tablet screen or the pixels of the Tablet. "Job Done"(y)

George.
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Seems so obvious now lol
 
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