Minox Scanning Report

The height steps are in .2mm because that’s the print layer height

The story so far: “Rob has become mildly obsessed with getting the best possible results scanning the tiny negatives produced by his Minox camera. He’s 3D printed a holder for his scanner which had different negative heights. The idea is to scan a negative and determine which height works best”. Now read on…

It wasn’t taken for testing, but it works really well

I took the picture above down at “the dock” in Hull. It is of the C4DI building and a tiny bit of the tidal barrier. The railings going off into the distance are a very good test for resolution. I used my “different height scanner thingy” (really must think of a better name) and got the following results:

A print of the entire image at this magification would be around 24 inches or so across

It was interesting to see the difference that 0.2mm height makes to the image quality. The best way to see it is to look at the lamppost at the end of the walkway. That is better defined against the background in the -0.2mm height scan. The next thing to do is to print a complete scanning frame for that height.