Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Magidson 
<jef.jef@...> wrote:
> On a whim I tried shooting my medium format negatives with my Canon  
> 5D and I am thrilled with the results! Here is my setup:
> 
> I mounted my Canon 5D with a Canon 100mm macro F/ 2.8 USM lens on my  
> copy stand. For a light source I'm using a Kaiser Prolight lightbox.  
> I put down a sheet of black mat-board on top of the lightbox and cut  
> out an opening the size of a single 6x7 cm frame. 

You have now made a higher resolution scanner that is used on many of 
the "minilabs". Most of those scanners are just a lens and a regular 
flat ccd (non-scanning). Most of the minilab ones are around 6mp (at 
least the Kodak ones that show up on ebay for a few hundred dollars).
It should be damn fast to digitize film this way.

If you want to increase the quality, you might think about build a 
different light source, something that is brighter so that you can stop 
the lens down and keep a fast exposure. And also you could control the 
color temperature of the light better than with a flourescent tube.