>>3860488Shown here a 100% crop from my 10 year old canon 5600 shatbed scanner set to something low like 1600dpi and with some sharpening and work in LR (I made a sharpening preset for myself) it looks okay for web use considering the £45 I spent on it on ebay. Not a great frame but detail dense which is why I chose it as an example. I shim out the scanners film holder with some cardboard and the extra pressure keeps things flat so I get uniform sharpness across the frame. 8x10 prints are a push but they look passable, smaller is fine.
Macro scanning can be killer but it's so ridiculously finnicky. I've tried coupling the end of my camera lens up to my enlarger head so I can focus finely, and even with the film held nicely flat and a condenser built in I can't get good results consistently. My advice for home digitizing would be buy any flatbed that can do more than 6 frames at once so you're not sat next to your computer for a long time and work with the sharpening in post knowing that you're not going to get great results but that it won't be as painful as trying to DSLR scan.
I wonder if anyone's tried putting a plug in light table on top of a regular scanner and doing it that way.
>>3860526I've heard the same about the accordion bottles. Which is a shame because it's a good idea. All my HDPE plastic ones are malformed from being squeezed but they don't seem to leak. I went with deep soda/water style screw caps for that reason.
