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

Started 3 months ago | Questions thread
Tim van der Leeuw Senior Member • Posts: 1,364
Re: Yes works with the Laowa 65/2.8
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I can now confirm that the JJC film scanning adapter also works with the Fuji XF80mm lens, however the fit is not as good as with the Laowa 65mm.

With only 1 tube on front of the lens, the negative is very close even at maximum extension of the head and some edges might be cut off at the top or bottom edge. (It seems the negative holder is not perfectly centered on the lens and so a bit of the holder itself will always be visible at either the top or bottom, for me at least).

With 2 tubes on the front of the lens, the negative holder is actually a bit far away and there will always be a border around the image from the negative holder.

With the Laowa lens you have a bit more control over that to get the distance just right.

The AF of the Fuji XF80mm lens does make it easier however to get the focus just right and your scans sharp so I'm not sure yet which of the two I will prefer over time for the negative scans.

Additionally I found an article on how to process the resulting colour negative images in CaptureOne Pro and the method described in it seems to work quite well for the negatives which I scanned so far!

Here's the link to the article:

https://medium.com/@benjamin.bezine/scanning-film-negatives-with-capture-one-e707d52c9b7a

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