Minox 8x11 scanning, anyone do it?

Go with a bellows plus macro lens on a DSLR - a old slide duplicating kit with a reversed 20mm in place of the regular 50mm will do nicely (and a Luminar might resolve things out of your Minox negatives you've never seen before).

I am not aware of any scanner with optics zoomable or focusable down to Minox scale, so the resolution of a scan would be very low, and focus and planarity problems would be critical In my experience even scanning 110 (with almost four times the area of Minox negatives) on a CS9000 delivers rather disappointing results compared to the above duplicating rig with a 6MP DSLR.
 
Thank you for the help guys.

sevo...do you think a 100mm macro mounted on a Canon 60D (1.6 factor) which would equat to 160mm be ok instead of the bellows?


whitecat....I contacted them and they make an adapter for Nikon to plustek, then their 8X11 tray will work. Not sure on the cost, I'll figure that out.

Thanks again guys this really helps.

Jim
 
jcrutcher said:
sevo...do you think a 100mm macro mounted on a Canon 60D (1.6 factor) which would equat to 160mm be ok instead of the bellows?
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Well, short of using it with 250mm of stacked extension tubes or bellows, it won't do - as is, it seems to do a maximum of 1:1 on 35mm/FF, which merely amounts to 1.6:1 on the 60D. What you'd need is a 4:1 enlargement, which you usually cannot even reach with a forward facing 50mm lens on bellows, hence the suggestion to use a reversed wide angle (shorter lenses need less extension to reach a high magnification - a 20mm lens would do with less than 75mm of total extension where the 100mm would need an impressive 350mm).
 
I have one for sale which might help. PM me. They charge $75.00. Also I found that the film when sandwiched between 2 pieces of glass works well.
 
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