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DSLR / Mirrorless Scanning Thread

Anonymous Tue 02 Sep 2025 08:28:42 No.4464841 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>4465018 >>4465020 >>4465799

What are your setups? Which products can you recommend? And wtf are the bastards from negative supply snorting to justify their pricing?

speaking of: Does anyone have the STLs from tonecarrier? I am a poor bastard and want to try them out.

other than that, I had no luck with the free printables you find on thingyverse etc.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 Sep 2025 08:36:18 No.4464842 Report

Quoted By: >>4464843 >>4466199

Unless you already have a 24MP or higher camera and a good macro lens, you are wasting your money for inferior results. Buy an old SCSI scanner with digital ICE and you'll get much better color quality and dinamic range, and then use negative lab pro or grain2pixel to invert them

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Anonymous Tue 02 Sep 2025 08:44:13 No.4464843 Report

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>>4464842
Yeah I already have a quite decent digital mirrorless + macro that would do the trick, and an old and heavy as fuck kaiser stand with lightscreen from grandpa.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 Sep 2025 08:49:20 No.4464844 Report

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>>4464843
Then your best options are either the Valoi ones or the nikon adapters for film scanning

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 Sep 2025 21:24:54 No.4464998 Report

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Bump in the hope that anyone was those STLs

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 Sep 2025 23:16:53 No.4465018 Report

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>>4464841
basically:
Etone backlight and film carriers
T254A8 tripod from K&FConcept
SMC takumar macro 50mm f4
OM-5

Cheap setup but works well enough for me, at least up to 6x6, results for 6x9 are a bit eeeh, but I think that is more my 6x9 folder.

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Anonymous Tue 02 Sep 2025 23:22:11 No.4465020 Report

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>>4464841
I use an DSLR with some bamboo scanning light thing, with some jigs for 35 and 120 film. The lens im using is a 150mm macro, then I just connect the camera up to my pc so I can make sure the exposures and focus is exactly correct. I also have a m43 with 50mp pixel shift that I kinda wanna try with it too, but I feel like you get really good microdetail on full frame.

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Anonymous Wed 03 Sep 2025 01:55:51 No.4465041 Report

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>>4465020
Thats bretty good man. the full pic has enough to print probably

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Anonymous Wed 03 Sep 2025 03:35:38 No.4465059 Report

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>>4465041
Yeah i'd say so, i flipped it with nlp. compared to the setup I was using earlier it cut down on the vignette massively.

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Anonymous Wed 03 Sep 2025 06:48:48 No.4465079 Report

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this is my setup but nikon 60mm micro adapted instead of gf lens

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Anonymous Wed 03 Sep 2025 06:53:42 No.4465080 Report

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>>4465079
Since you've got it right next to your PC, you should try just plugging it straight in there. You can check the focus on a march larger screen and check your inverter workflow to make sure your exposures are getting the most detail. Personally I was trying to do ETTR with mine and I found that that cameras metering were actually a lot better.

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Anonymous Wed 03 Sep 2025 18:49:29 No.4465223 Report

Quoted By: >>4465224 >>4465406

This is my setup for scanning slides. The backlight uses the RGB trick, it's an LED strip which I cut up and arranged in a matrix, then used a diffuser film from an old LCD monitor and a bit of acrylic.
Since it's single slides, I just decapsulate the film and this little magnet clamp/holder thingy I printed in PLA holds the edges flat which works well enough.
The camera bracket is PETG and braces the lens which means I don't have to faff around with yaw adjustment.
I used a Pi to control a little bluetooth remote. The Sony has a built in FTP upload which is super useful.
Everything else is aliexpress tat, but it's all straight enough to not be a concern.

Since I don't actually shoot film and this was just for archiving family stuff, it's all kind of disposable

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Anonymous Wed 03 Sep 2025 18:51:06 No.4465224 Report

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>>4465223
Uh, I got rotated it seems

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Anonymous Wed 03 Sep 2025 19:13:01 No.4465228 Report

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Then this is my ridiculous machine based on a 3D printer board that blows through whole carts of slides at a time. Same lens/camera/backlight as before though.
For this one, it's a Pi again, but I used tethering instead as there's a webcam in there for capturing the front of the slides at the same time for automated labelling. libgphoto worked but was a bit flaky (once it started working, everything was fine as long as I didn't touch any menus in the camera)

I forgot to mention the lens: Sony 50mm macro. It's a really good macro lens, but it's not a great prime because the electronic focus is so slow

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Anonymous Wed 03 Sep 2025 19:30:58 No.4465234 Report

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And finally, this stupid lil' guy. I think an apt name would be film destroyer 9000. I need to return to this as I do have a lot of negatives to scan. It's more of a prototype of what became the slide scanner.
Important things to learn from this:
- Horizontal mounting of the camera is bad because even if your mount is very firm, it seems like the internal lens elements have a bit of sag or something that causes pitch to be an issue. This wasn't as much of a problem for the slide scanner as that was all done at a much smaller aperture.
- The backlight is basically the same except I used WS2811 addressable LED strip, it turns out these chips start behaving oddly when they warm up which meant calibrating the channels was a huge PITA.
- I used a Pi to control the stepper. This was what caused any damage to the film as the software-controlled stepping was too rough.
- Adjusting the focus by screw rail is much easer than using the lens ring.

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Anonymous Thu 04 Sep 2025 14:21:40 No.4465406 Report

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>>4465223
Nigga I didn't understand a single word of this. Are the photos any good?

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Anonymous Fri 05 Sep 2025 23:38:41 No.4465799 Report

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>>4464841
Mirrorless cameras don’t even make a CLUNK sound when you snap. How are you even a photographer?

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Anonymous Sat 06 Sep 2025 05:46:37 No.4465873 Report

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>>4465799
It can have a shutter that's not a mirror

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Anonymous Sun 07 Sep 2025 13:06:43 No.4466199 Report

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>>4464842
>Unless you already have a 24MP or higher camera and a good macro lens
who the fuck doesn't, m8?
>gb2 3rd world

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Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 07:08:50 No.4466901 Report

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>>4465080
i've tried tethering into darktable but it was quite buggy to connect and stay connected. it would be quite handy to save the files directly to drive instead of having to go back and forth with the sd card

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Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 13:36:53 No.4466982 Report

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>>4466901
Yeah I tried with lightroom with their 'studio session' mode or whatever it was called bit it was pretty average. I found a lot more functionality through my cameras proprietary software, which for me was EOS utility. It gave me a proper live view with magnification, easier file handling and camera controls. I'm sure other manufacturers have similar software, so maybe its worth testing that out.

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Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 14:15:21 No.4466985 Report

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>>4465224
>>4465228
>>4465234
Just wanted to commend on the high effort post even if no one else did. Did you model and make everything yourself, an engineering undergrad perhaps?

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Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 17:09:59 No.4467036 Report

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>>4466985
thanks, not a real engineer, but a software "engineer". and yes, everything modelled in FreeCAD

>>4465406
Okay, the only important bit is that an RGB LED backlight will have better colour rendering for film than white phosphor based LED backlights.

This is one scan from a much earlier version where there were more problems with light bleed

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Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 17:11:03 No.4467038 Report

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>>4467036
Zach? Put your name back on

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Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 17:29:03 No.4467041 Report

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>>4467038
What exactly are you accusing me of?

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Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 20:14:44 No.4467070 Report

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>>4466199
>yes, everyone shoots macro

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