Digitizing 35mm with 60mm APO & Nikon ES-1

[michaelbogdan]

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So Nikon sells an adapter that allows you to mount 35mm film in front of their 60mm 1:1 Marco lens and digitize it with one of their DSLR’s. This mount just filters onto the lens and you point it towards a light box.

 

I have lots of old film and I was wondering if anyone has tried this out with the 60mm APO. This lens also has a 1:1 magnification ratio, and I’m wondering if it would work, or if the crop factor from the APC sensor would cut off part of the image...

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[Jdphoto]

It should work. I like that this option too. Use an adapter if needed to attach Nikon film holder to Leica, but not sure about converting negatives to positives in camera, but E6 should work great.

[michaelbogdan]

At minimum it’d be a great solution for black and white. C41 could be frustrating without software that could process the negative image. I’m mostly concerned with the crop.

[fsprow]

I have tried this with a variety of devices, lenses and DSLR's.  None gave results even close to a quality scanner, like the Nikon 9000ED or I'm sure others.

 

Recommend sending to a good scanning service and save the time and frustration. 

[Boojay]

Having just tried scanning some colour negatives with the CL and 60mm 2.8 Macro R with 1:1 adaptor, I needed to have some space between lens and negative which I placed between two pieces of glass on a lightbox.  It was ok, that's all I can say.   I think if I was going to do a lot of film I would invest in a scanner.  One thing for sure it makes you realise how little trouble sensor dust is, when it comes to trying to keep dust off negatives it's a whole different ballgame.

 

Below example of scan inverted in lightroom - dust a plenty - then the other is after conversion to black and white and cleaned up.

 

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[michaelbogdan]

Not bad at all! Probably not good for a print, but not bad for a casual scan

[Boojay]

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Yes, my thoughts exactly, I haven't tried to print anything,  this was my first film out of an M3 and after spending a couple of hours watching you tube videos I gave it all a go - was fun but seemingly endless process!!!!

 

Not bad at all! Probably not good for a print, but not bad for a casual scan

[Photon42]

Having just tried scanning some colour negatives with the CL and 60mm 2.8 Macro R with 1:1 adaptor, I needed to have some space between lens and negative which I placed between two pieces of glass on a lightbox.  It was ok, that's all I can say.   I think if I was going to do a lot of film I would invest in a scanner.  One thing for sure it makes you realise how little trouble sensor dust is, when it comes to trying to keep dust off negatives it's a whole different ballgame.

 

Below example of scan inverted in lightroom - dust a plenty - then the other is after conversion to black and white and cleaned up.

 

Scan colour lightroom.jpgafter clean up & B&W.jpg

 

 

Was that from a slide or from a color negative? If the latter, what was your method of removing the orange mask?

 

Thanks

[Boojay]

Was that from a slide or from a color negative? If the latter, what was your method of removing the orange mask?

 

Thanks

 

I just followed the instructions on this you tube video - sure there are better ways but I am still experimenting.

 

 

 

Sure you would find better answers to this question in one of the "Film" forums.

Edited April 16, 2018 by Boojay

[burkey]

 

Dust or not, that's a fine image you posted.

. . . David

[Guest Nowhereman]

I have tried this with a variety of devices, lenses and DSLR's.  None gave results even close to a quality scanner, like the Nikon 9000ED or I'm sure others.

 

Recommend sending to a good scanning service and save the time and frustration. 

 

fsprow - My experience with camera digitalization, using a Focotar-2 50mm enlarger lens on a Leitz BEEON copy stand and an M10, is completely different: in post #6 of my thread on scanning transparency film with this setup I wrote, the BEOON + M10 combination is a great alternative to scanning — and much faster. My feeling is that the results in scanning slides are at least as good as I got from my old Imacon Precision III scanner, which has a true optical resolution 6300 dpi and a dMax of 4.2. I doubt a scanner with a dMax of 3.6 (equivalent to about 2 stops less dynamic range) could scan transparencies so easily...

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