Austrian photographer Markus Hofstaetter has a high-end film scanner, but it's tedious. Can a Leica M11 effectively scan film instead?
“I love to scan with my Screen Cezanne scanner, but it takes forever to boot it up and to start a scan,” Hofstaetter. “And when I need to scan 35mm film, I have to do a lot of work to scan 36 frames.” Enter the Leica M11.
In and of itself, using cameras to scan film isn’t new. Many companies offer solutions to use a digital camera to scan film, including BlackScale Lab and itsIt’s a pretty complex setup in general. Hofstaetter uses a K&F Concept mount adapter to put a Canon EF 100mm macro lens on his M11, which must have its aperture locked at the desired setting from a Canon camera before being adapted to the M11.
“I am really happy to use the Leica M11 for digitizing tintypes and film,” Hofstaetter says. “It makes my life easier and more comfortable and still gives me great quality to work with.”Hofstaetter’s 160-pound Screen Cezanne scanner However, as Hofstaetter’s examples show, while the M11 can’t quite match the quality of the dedicated scanner, it comes close. This is thanks to the M11’s60.3-megapixel BSI CMOS image sensor and Hofstaetter’s precision. When the negatives are flat, the light is good, and the lens is focused, the M11 does a heck of a job scanning old film — including shots from an analog Leica M2 camera. “Somehow it’s funny to scan negatives from a Leica M2 with an M11,” Hofstaetter says.
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