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

Tim van der Leeuw wrote:

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.

Great.

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

Yep.

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.

Confirm. I also adjust every frame. It is not like push/fire. But I need to manually focus anyway with the Laowa. Well, it is a few seconds per frame. I tend to leave a bit of the edges and crop in post.

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.

Exactly the same issue here. I also have those strips on my negatives from the 1980s and 1990s.

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

Yep.

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

With darktable so far not bad. But I need to do more before I can make a serious statement. Never find the time...

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

Very nice image.

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

Bob did a great job

Cheers,

Martin