Question about Digitising B&W negatives?

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I have just shot my first few rolls of film ever, and they are in the local lab getting developed and scanned. The scans I have asked for are 1600 x 1600. I am really so so excited about seeing how they turned out.
For my next set of film I plan to develop the negatives myself and then digitise them with my DSLR and macro lens (I only know of this and how to do it via youtube). So my question is have any of you guys done this and had any success, and how do they compare to scanned images ??
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Before I got my scanner going I used my D200 and a 50mm macro lens.
I already had a light box, I cut a 6x6 hole in a sheet of black plastic from an A4 ring binder, and shot my negs through that beneath a tripod.
It worked ok, all my pictures in the early pages of the show us yours thread are d200 images, I think they are better than a cheap flatbed, or at least the cheap flatbed I had at the time.
For best results I found the cut square had to be a tight cur, no light leaks around the frame edge or it bled in to the image, and shoot in the dark.
Although I never tried it, I can see a dedicated slide copier is probably much less of a faff, a 35mm one ought not to be too hard to find.
 
As John has said,I digitised all my Wife's 35mm slides with an early Olympus digital camera model 2020 I think,attached to an adapter and a slide duplicator (Ohnar).

The results for the time 10 years ago were just fantastic and I got through 600 slides in a couple of weeks and only used the window as a light source.

These days with a good set up you could achieve results that are as,if not more acceptable than low res scans from a lab.

If your film is 35mm I would not use a Macro lens direct,but, the duplicator which as a lens involved in the item. I have my Ohnar still and if it is 35mm, I am happy to send it to you for postage.
 
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