I bought a used Canon 8400F on eBay Germany for around 60€ many years ago. Never had to use anything else. The scanner is recognizable by Gimp, but as some updates no more allowed it I downloaded the Canoscan software from Canon's support pages and it works perfectly.
Sometimes it’s a pity, that old hardware Stopps being supported by software. I have a friend, who still has an old winXP computer for those reasons. :D
Very instructive video. I personally have settled on using a flat bed scanner since I have had difficulty keeping the lens and negative plane level. I’m using a Canon 5ds with a 100mm macro and the weight tend to pull the vertical structure over or bend. I have to shim the light table to ensure a level plane and sometimes it’s not until I load the images that I find a focus issue. Your stand seems much more sturdy than my set up, but out of frustration, I have just gone flat bed and am happy with the results. However, the cost of a good scanner is significantly more expensive.
Yeah, the „happy shooting“ stand is really stiff. There is definitely no significant bending of the Center Pole and I have fixed it on three points, so that it is really stable. It is only very high, but still fits on my board, where i store it when not used. How much did you pay for a scanner?
@@manugeee Hi, I first bought an Epson V700 for around $300, which was fine for digitizing old family photos but couldn’t get the results for my art stuff. As described above, I tried the camera method but the downsides were, larger footprint, and setup time. I still use the setup for photos were I don’t have negatives but I wanted a workstation approach to reduce time getting everything into Capture1 which I use instead of LR. I bought a new Epson V850 for around $1200 and am very happy with the results. I justified the cost by thinking through my initial investment in cameras and lenses for film over the years (been shooting since middle 80’s with a Pentax K1000 then a Rollieflex T which was a gift from my father in law, then Pentax LX and so on). While my children were young, I had to improvise and be responsible. Now, I have a bit more freedom and can afford my hobby as I want.
This might sound like dilly question but I have nearly same setup as yourself but never thought of using macro rail, the macro rail you mentioned looks good but do I need to buy anything else so it attaches to the copy stand? From the video it looks like you have two brackets top and bottom?
Hi Aaron, that’s right. I bought another bracket and attached it to the Center rail. This makes sure that the macro rail is also aligned parallel to the Center rail. It also gives a little bit more distance for the camera. I did just this. Two brackets and the macro rail. That’s it. :-)
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I bought a used Canon 8400F on eBay Germany for around 60€ many years ago. Never had to use anything else. The scanner is recognizable by Gimp, but as some updates no more allowed it I downloaded the Canoscan software from Canon's support pages and it works perfectly.
Sometimes it’s a pity, that old hardware Stopps being supported by software. I have a friend, who still has an old winXP computer for those reasons. :D
@@manugeee eBay Kleinanzeigen hat ein paar Professionelle Scanner (Plustek, Minolta etc) aber die Kompatibilität mit neue OS ist Fragwürdig 🤷🏽♂️
Very instructive video. I personally have settled on using a flat bed scanner since I have had difficulty keeping the lens and negative plane level. I’m using a Canon 5ds with a 100mm macro and the weight tend to pull the vertical structure over or bend. I have to shim the light table to ensure a level plane and sometimes it’s not until I load the images that I find a focus issue.
Your stand seems much more sturdy than my set up, but out of frustration, I have just gone flat bed and am happy with the results. However, the cost of a good scanner is significantly more expensive.
Yeah, the „happy shooting“ stand is really stiff. There is definitely no significant bending of the Center Pole and I have fixed it on three points, so that it is really stable. It is only very high, but still fits on my board, where i store it when not used.
How much did you pay for a scanner?
@@manugeee Hi, I first bought an Epson V700 for around $300, which was fine for digitizing old family photos but couldn’t get the results for my art stuff. As described above, I tried the camera method but the downsides were, larger footprint, and setup time. I still use the setup for photos were I don’t have negatives but I wanted a workstation approach to reduce time getting everything into Capture1 which I use instead of LR. I bought a new Epson V850 for around $1200 and am very happy with the results. I justified the cost by thinking through my initial investment in cameras and lenses for film over the years (been shooting since middle 80’s with a Pentax K1000 then a Rollieflex T which was a gift from my father in law, then Pentax LX and so on).
While my children were young, I had to improvise and be responsible. Now, I have a bit more freedom and can afford my hobby as I want.
This might sound like dilly question but I have nearly same setup as yourself but never thought of using macro rail, the macro rail you mentioned looks good but do I need to buy anything else so it attaches to the copy stand? From the video it looks like you have two brackets top and bottom?
Hi Aaron, that’s right. I bought another bracket and attached it to the Center rail. This makes sure that the macro rail is also aligned parallel to the Center rail. It also gives a little bit more distance for the camera.
I did just this. Two brackets and the macro rail. That’s it. :-)