Masks for Digital Camera Film Scanning

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Can I ask what masks people are using if they have moved over to Digital Camera Scanning? I'm looking at systems from : Essential Film Holder, Valoi and Pixlatr. Open to other options so would welcome other insights.
 
I tried various, but settled on the Kaiser system... It's fast to use and works very well but isn't cheap. 35mm up to 4x5 I believe.

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I tried the Pixlatr. Too much of a faff. Ended up selling it on. Good news is I didn't lose much, so it was worth a try for me.

The issue I had with it was that curly film was a real pain to work with. The 8100 I have does a much better job, and I have ANR glass for my V550 which is the perfect solution IMO. It may well be the best offering for DSLR scanning, but it wasn't satisfactory for me.
 
mdpF2 said:
I tried various, but settled on the Kaiser system... It's fast to use and works very well but isn't cheap. 35mm up to 4x5 I believe.

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Thanks Mark, I wasn't aware of that system, I'll have a look.
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I tried the Pixlatr. Too much of a faff. Ended up selling it on. Good news is I didn't lose much, so it was worth a try for me.

The issue I had with it was that curly film was a real pain to work with. The 8100 I have does a much better job, and I have ANR glass for my V550 which is the perfect solution IMO. It may well be the best offering for DSLR scanning, but it wasn't satisfactory for me.
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Thanks Ian, that's good to know about the Pxltr. Which ever mask I get, I'm not going to sell my scanners 8100 and V500 until I've tried the digital camera approach and made a comparison.
 
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Which ever mask I get, I'm not going to sell my scanners 8100 and V500 until I've tried the digital camera approach and made a comparison
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It would be good to hear your thoughts. After faffing around with backlights and tripod nonsense as well as the conversion from neg to pos, I decided against that method. It didn't help that I shoot 35mm, 6x6, 6x7, 645 and 6x17 so a mask device was never going to be perfect for me.
 
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As an aside, I have a 6x6 medium format mask, actually an enlarger negative carrier, which I would be happy to pass on at no cost (I'll pay the postage). Its a very well made aluminium frame in two parts. Could also be used for contact printing perhaps, if you are into vintage type miniature contact prints. It has been sitting on my desk for weeks waiting for a new home. No idea which enlarger it fits and the only enlarger I ever owned was Gnome Beta so I'm pretty sure it didn't belong to that.
 
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As an aside, I have a 6x6 medium format mask, actually an enlarger negative carrier, which I would be happy to pass on at no cost (I'll pay the postage). Its a very well made aluminium frame in two parts. Could also be used for contact printing perhaps, if you are into vintage type miniature contact prints. It has been sitting on my desk for weeks waiting for a new home. No idea which enlarger it fits and the only enlarger I ever owned was Gnome Beta so I'm pretty sure it didn't belong to that.
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Peter, Thats very generous. I'd be happy to pay the postage if it needs a good home!
 
Don't worry about the postage, just PM your address and I'll post it straight away. It will fit in the postbox opposite my house so there is no inconvenience involved.
 
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