JJC Film Digitizing Adapter // Pls confirm 10...10.5 cm working distance (for the Laowa 65/2.8)

Hi Martin,

I ordered one of these devices shortly after discovering them in this thread, confident they would work with my Laowa 65mm lens, but due to a combination of circumstances I did not manage to actually try it out until today!

So today it was time to dig out this chat again and share my experiences with the negative-scanner!

I found that it works well with the Laowa 65mm lens. I did not yet try it out with the Fuji XF80mm lens.

The tubes are very much adjustable in length to get the right size of projection, this system is very flexbile.

I did find that there's a little bit of play in the sliding mechanism and you have to be careful that the negatives are straight in front of the lens.

Putting the negatives in was also a bit of a challenge, for reason that extra paper strips had been added to the top and bottom of the first ones we tried scanning, done when extra prints had been ordered back in the day... Had to carefully cut that off.

Once we figured that out, it was not a big issue, just took extra time.

Of course, now I have the issue of getting the colours right on the scanned colour negatives. 😂

Here is one of the first scanned images, from a vacation in Yorkshire, the UK.

I tried to fix colours somewhat but it still looks wrong! I still need to put more work in that.

I photographed the negatives with the camera tethered and images imported directly into CaptureOne so that some basic colour corrections were instantly applied, but everything in editing is the other way round so I need to be a better solution for this!

(To raise the shadows I need to lower the whites...)

😂