My new DSLR negative scanner.

[timreeves]

So I've spent pretty much all day building this and after the very first shot my cameras battery dies! DOH!

It's fully adjustable so should be able to work with any lens that will focus between 40 to 120mm infront of it, it attaches by a 49mm filter ring and the first lens I've tried to test with is a 35mm 2.8 Pentax-m

It will do a 120 pic in 6 shots and a 35 in 2

enough of the boring stuff onto the rig & results!
Here's my handiwork

and the shot is on provia 400, this is 1/6 of the image!

 

[ChrisR]

It will do a 120 pic in 6 shots and a 35 in 2

I thought I was understanding this until this sentence! Could you explain, or show diagrams or something? Are you saying you stitch the shots together?

I also wondered what you do about the base colour problem for colour negatives?

Looks clever though (I guess it's the same principle as the "stand-alone" scanners we warn folks against, but with a much better camera involved, capable of taking raw images, which should help a lot!)

 

[abbandon]

I can think of so many reasons not to do this but if it hasn't cost much time or money why not

This phiotographer says he gets better results than using a scanner and has a tutorail here.

For a very detailled disscusion on this sort of thing on Large Format Info have a look here.

Alex Faulks tells me he is doing a roaring trade in illumitrans

One of the problems you will have in any of these set ups is flare, no doubt this has been linked before but its worth a look at the Large Format Collabrative scan comparrision
Deslect all then select the Cezanne ( one of the best Pro flat beds ever used to be 28 000 new apparently) Epson V750 Pro (550 odd when I brought mine in 08) and say the Screen DT-S1045AI (56 000 new in 96 for the one I recently brought seconhand) Scroll down to the last image which investigate shadow noise performance.

:shrug: The thing I don't get about Dslr's for scanning film is the quality issues and price I can understand the speed advantage but any which way if you look at doing this critically and getting good results well its just so much cheaper to go and get the right bit of kit seconhand in the first place

When ever I see references to Drum scanners on thios forum its always about how they are too expensive to afford, seconhand this is very much not the case its not infrequently they literally get given away and certainly I have seen many very useble and working set ups sell for less than the cost of a V750. The other excuse is their size which is fair enough but if you can it really does make sense to ge one.

 

[excalibur2]

Well Tim it's a no! no! for me as I haven't a proper digital camera But apparently you can get good results using a digital camera and guy on another forum is happy using his similar method.....can't remember if it's just for old negs or he is using a combo of digital and film in his hobby.