I've decided to scan some of my father's negatives. He did a lot of local sports photography with a Rolleiflex Automat. Anyway, about a decade ago, some of us here worked on a semi-automated stitching scanner. We succeeded, but given today's high megapixel digital cameras, for most uses stitching isn't needed. Since most of my father's picture are 6cm square, I used a 105MN on my Z9. I made a light box with an inexpensive LED panel, one with good CRI, and I made a negative holder out of a flexible plastic cutting board. I'll take pictures of the setup soon. Any, I'm very happy with the system. Autofocus works great. The Z9 doesn't use a mechanical shutter or mirror. The light source is bright enough that I can use over a 1000th of a second shutter speed, and the files would make excellent 17" square photos at 300 dpi, assuming the negative is of high quality.
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