M8 and BEOON

[Doanduy]

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18 hours ago, a.noctilux said:

You are welcome,

M8 can become a nice film scanner with Beoon plus good enough lens.

 

 

 

I saw your picture scaned by Leica M8. It’s wonderful. Can 10.3 MP sensor really do that good?
I got a deal in ebay with 225euro for like new Leica Beoon. Should i try? 

[a.noctilux]

Many thanks.

Only you can decide if you buy or not the Beoon.

Those old "things" are unique only if one can make good use of it.

They become quite scarse and scarcer over years.

I've bought mine so long ago (I think the good price by then as I've never  been rich), I forgot the price = good thing as we say "quality remains, while price forgotten" (or something like that).

 

Don't forget that the original slides or negatives are the most important when scanned.

Mediocre originals would stay mediocre even scanned with the best scanner of 200 M pixels (if exist ) 😉.

[Doanduy]

Thanks you. 😀
 

[jmahto]

On 7/11/2017 at 9:19 PM, brentb said:

 

Hellerkar has done me a great favour, and emailed me the BEOON manual scans I had been searching for, and asked that I resize and share them here. Please keep these for your own use, and do not redistribute. Unfortunately, the restrictions of this forum require them to be spread over multiple posts, as there is a 500kb limit, and I wanted to keep them as large as possible for clarity. Pages 3 and 4 will follow in next message. 

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Thank you for posting this. I have been using BEOON for past few years with M240 to scan 35mm negatives and now wanted to scan 120 film. I found my setup for 35mm by trial and error but it is great to have the manual. I will need that to figure out how to scan bigger negative. 

[a.noctilux]

Bigger negative can be done of course.

I scanned 24x65mm negatives from Xpan with BEOON + "bigger" right mask.

To obtain less flarey files, I need to cut to size 24x65 opening from black cardboard.

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Edited August 19, 2024 by a.noctilux