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Result: an economic price would have to be levied.
AI tells me, is £30-40 per film for developing and scanning. I charge £12.50. I have currently stopped scanning Minox until we find a more economic solution: at £12.50 I subsidise charges out of my own pocket since 2016, and I cannot do that any more.
We can process to special order. Scanning services are not offered until further notice. AI tells me that a reasonable price for developing and scanning would be £30-40 for a film (£40 for E6 slide). It has no data on refill prices, even if I charge £7.50 for a refill, that puts 8x11mm processing on a par with slide processing or 120.
At £47 I may as well shut down now. I recently charged my 2001 price of £12.50 for develop and scan. To charge a fair price I need to invest in a facility.
My other problem is that people complain on length of time to scan films. This is a part-time work, evenings and weekends only.
We can process to special order. Scanning services are not offered until further notice. AI tells me that a reasonable price for developing and scanning would be £30-40 for a film (£40 for E6 slide). It has no data on refill prices, even if I charge £7.50 for a refill, that puts 8x11mm processing on a par with slide processing or 120.
At £47 I may as well shut down now. I recently charged my 2001 price of £12.50 for develop and scan. To charge a fair price I need to invest in a facility.
My other problem is that people complain on length of time to scan films. This is a part-time work, evenings and weekends only.
Minox tank is best because it can cope with thick film such as remjet-coated cine-s still 100/400D. Paterson reels have trouble threading the Vision film, as it sticks. But if you already have a Paterson tank, the 3D printed Minox reels are excellent - but they have to be pushed through, there is no twisting.
Too dear, with uneconomic chemical consumption, we will test, but it will be trial and error. Our issue is consistency: developing approaches such as the new rotary and timed processor from AGO look interesting.
We sell our own Minox film wallets 5 x 10 strip, clear. £1.99 each.
We recommend a valoi easy 35 with minox adapter as a lightbox, and a micro four thirds camera as a copying device. Even a lowly Panasonic G7 will act as an excellent starter with an Olympus 30mm F3.5 macro lens and one or tubes. We sell cardboard slide holders as an excellent frame.
You can use a DSLR/Mirrorless full frame in APS-C mode but you will need a very cumbersome set up - 50mm lens with many tubes. Why? because you have to bring up the 8x11mm frame in the camera to fill the whole sensor size. This provides a large and resolution-filled image which can withstand editing in post without losing sharpness.
All amateur scanners (moving sensor or flatbed) will scan a 8x1mm image with an 8x11mm slice of sensor. If you use a 4800 dpi scan with no interpolation, that value (based on a 36x24 frame) will fall to only 500-600 dpi for the frame scan of a Minox 8x11mm frame.
Commercial scanners, such as the Agfa DLAB2 had a dedicated 110 holder: although only 13x17mm frame the lens on the DLAB2 would move forward to fill the sensor frame. Fuji's SP3000 had manual positioning, but I do not know if the lens compensated for the small frame by moving closer.
Noritsu's LS-600 series does not move the lens in the 35mm channel any closer if I insert an 8x11mm negative: so it scans 1:1. It's OK. but not as good as a camera copy.
The best amateur scanner is the 5400 dpi Dimage Minolta mark one, closely followed by the Nikon Coolscan LS5000 or LS50. Imacon Flextight are very good but very slow, and the lens does go slow enough for a 8x11mm: and SCSI connection is needed.
The best ever scan from a Minox I have ever seen was from an Agfa DLAB2 with a customised 110 carrier. The scanner was set to 110 mode. If I get another DLAB2 and proper factory to scan Minox, I have retained the 110 carrier from that time.
An Fuji SP3000 may be superior, but only with the dedicated Minox carrier, which I have seen but never used.
The DLAB 110 Minox carrier was a one-off customisation. So without that the current pro-level M43 cameras raise the bar for resolution, autofocus, optics and speed. There is a very big however, however. The camera has no inversion function, so software is needed to convert in post-production, and there is no automatic dust and scratch reduction as Kodak's Digital ICE (1-4) is not available to digital cameras, only scanners. Nikon and Canon could insert an add on via the hot shoe which could offer such a feature. but they are unlikely to without customer and commercial pressure.
Please understand there is a limit with how much information is with in a 88 square millimeter area of film. Slower film and good technique can reveal. 1950-1960's BW and Ansochome slide film hold a staggering good grain structure permitting enlargements. Late 1960's-1970's slide film and 1980's C41 negative film does not either. Slow speed films such as CMS20 II or Adox HR50 are excellent. E6 velvia is excellent.
A high quality film slicer is essential, that is why we sell one. As a try out, use the camerhack daylight loader to try the process out. You will need 4 x cassettes, a 59.9cm tape measure, a changing bag, scissors and patience.