23 May, 2024
BlackBox 135 Digitisation Tool Review
Conclusion: easy to set up, easy to use, superb results. If you have a digital camera and macro lens then for 35mm film scanning forget the flatbed scanner. Their website is bla...
28 March, 2023
Agfa Duoscan HID – Bringing a Cheap 24 Year Old High-End Scanner Back to Life – It’s Mind Blowing
It all started when we needed to scan some slides. With my Screen Cezanne 5000 scanner I would get an amazing quality, but it would be exhausting to do. I have an old Epson scan...
9 July, 2021
Plustek OpticFilm 135i Review Part II – Panoramic Film Holder and Investigating ‘Panorama Mode’ – By Bob Janes
Earlier in 2021 I put up a review of the Plustek OpticFilm 135i film scanner. Just recently I've been investigating the Panoramic film holder and 'Panorama mode' (which you can ...
I recently found myself in the market for a film scanner. Minolta film scanners have served me well over the years. My current standard is a Dual Scan III, but it does get quite...
30 March, 2021
Presto Digitization with the CAMERADACTYL BoopBoop Trigger for mounted slides – By Ethan Moses
I wrote a long year in review article over on EMULSIVE about how I came to this project, how and why it came to be. This article is just going to stick mostly to the technicals...
6 March, 2017
Noritsu LS-1100 – First Colour Scans
At the end of the week before last I shared my first few black & white scans from my newly functioning Noritsu LS-1100. The next step was to share some thoughts about the proces...
25 February, 2017
Noritsu LS-1100 – First Black & White Scans
Sometime late spring last year I bought myself a Noritsu LS-1100 scanner. For one reason and another, and another, and a few more, I've had a bit of a mare getting it working, b...
... After looking into lab offerings both locally and abroad I was disheartened. None of the labs were significantly better, cheaper or faster as a whole. However I soon conclud...