Recent content by silvergelatin

I do the same, but that is not the reason for the RGB light. It is more about color purity, crosstalk, channel separation, etc. There is a bunch of color science tech I don't fully understand, but the results are clearly better (which is all I care about). Take a look at the explanation on...

There has been a lot of discussion about this, but the current gold standard is RGB. Unfortunately, there are very few on the market. Jacks Scanlight and the Cinestill Spectracolor are the most commonly mentioned. I have the former, and haven't used the latter. Color correction became much, much...

A ball head is a really hard way to do it. If you want to use a head at all, it should be geared for fine adjustments. I found that the easier and more stable solution is to do the leveling at the film plane instead. Based on a suggestion from this forum I bought a Valoi light adapter and put it...

Color quality comes primarily from the light source. Your panel is likely not ideal for color film.

After a lot of tinkering and swapping/upgrading, I finally settled on a nice system: Sony A7RIV Rodestock Apo-Rodagon 75mm 1x w/ extension tubes Nisi Focusing Rail Lobster Holder v2 (highly recommended) Jack's Big Scanlight (mounted on top of the Valoi light adapter as leveling base) LPL A4...

Tedious indeed. But since the NS holder wasn't flat, it didn't matter - the film plane shifted on each shot for cut strips. The solution was to buy a Lobster Holder, which I got yesterday and scanned 12 cut rolls through last night. Problem solved!

Yeah, I think all of the transport-focused carriers sacrifice flatness on cut strips. I ordered a Lobster Holder, but I am a little concerned that it will be slow and inconvenient for high quantities. We will see.

What specifically did you not like about these? I’m going to need something to replace this NS, unless everything else is just as bad. I emailed NS to see if this is their idea of normal, so we’ll see if maybe I just got a bad one.

Ran another test - removed the Neg Supply carrier entirely and put my Vlads target into a simple clamshell film holder (from the Nikon ES-2 I had buried in the closet). Put my mirror on top, aligned, focused, and shot at various apertures. Finally this expensive Rodagon is behaving as expected -...

Does FFC affect focus? I didn't think it did. I never suspected that I might be OCD until started this camera scanning thing. Decades in a darkroom and never had to obsess over alignment. Lucky, I guess.

I just tried alignment again and discovered that if I put a metal ruler across the carrier lengthwise, I get pretty good alignment with the same mirror on top of the ruler. But if I put that mirror directly across the carrier opening, it shifts a bit. So it seems the outer edges are not...

If you are shooting color film, the light source is the most important part. You should buy something proven for film scanning.

The "mirror trick" is where you place a mirror over your film carrier (presumably parallel to your film plane) and then center the image of your stopped-down lens aperture in the mirror. The idea is that it will only line up if you are perfectly parallel.

There is some softening of grain in the affected corners, but if stopped down, it is not severe. I still want to get it right for those edge cases where it might show up. Agreed that there may be some sample variation on the carrier. The outer chassis is solid, but the inner cassette part feels...

Not yet. I have been running a few tests to make sure that that is the actual cause, and I can't see any other explanation since the lenses don't appear to be de-centered and the film plane itself is not bent. If you are shooting with a 60mm lens and stopping down, you might not see any...