>>3065519>hurrrr yyou already own a digital camera and flashthey are like, the absolute basics for this hobby, so, yeh, I'd guess 95% of people here have these items.
>triggers are expensivemine were £4, a sync cable is also pennies.
>wahwahwah full frameYou don't need ff for good scans, 1:1 on crop looks identical to 1:1 on ff, except you need to stitch more shots. I'm actually waiting on some nikon bellows to show up so I can use the old CCD d70 and look at how they come out.
as for outperforming your flatbed.
d3100 body - £130 from london camera exchange
nikkor 50mm f4 enlarger lens - £50 from ebay
bellows - £18 from ebay
manual yongnuo flash - £30 from ebay
That puts me at 228, add on the acrylic, glass, sync cable and materials for a rig and it's maybe 250, which is $323 and you get a perfectly capable DSLR and excellent macro gear and flash, instead of a shonky old flatbed that can scan flat things.
You can still save another 100 quid off that price if you're happy to go to one of the old 6MP bodies, they're CCD so colour reproduction is great and the dynamic range of shooting film is only a couple of stops, so you're not really held back by the sensor performance unless you NEED more than 10MP per 135 frame.
