paul_osullivan

You will lose too much resolution. I have tried it with digital maco lenses, you name it. Better way is a negative scanner.

yep, everything from LX to Riga. Scan, dev, print all myself. whatever happened to Zapp's digitally-designed Minox (CLX video reference in 1998),

The problem is finding enough labs to do a good job of Minox, especially black and white. I can get film easily enough (http://www.mshobbies.com) in the UK, but I think the labs in Germany are having problems with their equipment - no contact sheets for example for color.

 

Although you can develop Minox C41 film through commercial processes no problem, typical lab machines (D-LAB, Frontier) never had an 8x11 carrier nor a mechanism for automatic scanning and processing prints. The carrier is half the problem, as the machine pre-scans all film: with no sprockets in the 8x11 film (even 110 had that, which is why there are some labs still offering 110 processing (UK: http://www.cityphotographic.co.uk)) the manual positioning features of many minlab rely on some way of gripping the film rebate to position the film in that manner.

 

Scanning is a grey area, especiallty for Minox. None of the holders support 8x11 officially and I have seen results where the negative is not sharp when scanned (because the holder cannot keep the film flat)

Tried: plustek - high res, but impossible to keep film flat and minolta scan-muli Mk I with customized minox holder. Very good results, but not quite high enough resolution for 8x11. But note, the Mk.I Minolta scanner came with a 16mm minolta holder, so I can do 16mm scanning easily. Results are very good indeed.

Well, I am quite happy with my 1DS, and a nice selection of lenses thank you very much. Particularly good with

color, and with the 50 1.2 'L' lens. The build quality is particularly impressive. Here's a quick picture, uncorrected with

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Pass indeed. The batteries, even new ones, do not hold their charge. The A/C adapters are hard to find, and to find one in decent condition is almost impossible. Remember, these were multi-thousand dollars at the time, so many were hacked to death.

 

and they are very heavy. Gave nice results though.

Well, just check the small print. People have been caught by the guarantee which says 'Vald in Asia only' when such items are bought in Europe. The question is: it is worth it for USD$20...