Nikon D800 as a "Scanner"

[ColSebastianMoran]

Why not just pop it with a SB-80, SB-800 or 900 strobe on a light stand?

Power is adjustable in essentially 1/3 stops down to 1/128 full power. Gels with a wide variety of color temperatures are available.

Now I think that's interesting. Start with a 5500 K light source (instead of a tungsten light) and start adding filtration from there. That should enable us to handle the orange mask on C-41.

 

[Godfrey]

Really? Wouldn't that add another variable (the light conditions under which you take the reference image)?

Not if your gray card is a proper neutral reflector. It's always best to take a WB reading from something neutral in between the extremes of pure white and pure black.

 

[Nokton48]

I had to go, but I quickly tried 110C + 60M with my Nex 3 and it worked decently well. I think the saturation is what may be lacking, the results are a bit flat, but definately usuable. I used a 100mm Bellows MC Rokkor on the Durst Chroma Pro. I reset the Nex 3 to TUNGSTEN lighting, which adds even more blue. Color was correctable within photoshop at these settings.

This has potential, especially for B&W.

Pete Turner has his Honeywell Repronar "souped-up" by Marty Forschner, with an electronic flash light source. But, of course, he was copying with Kodachrome II.

 

[Nokton48]

Here is my Durst ChromaPro with the Nex-3 and 100mm MC Rokkor attached:

 

[ColSebastianMoran]

My friend Walker was writing about this a little while ago:

http://theagnosticprint.org/future-of-scanning/

That article is quite interesting. Thanks!