The pixl-latr x VALOI adapter: Get extra in your movie “scanning” buck

Photographic movie digitisation system suppliers pixl-latr and VALOI have downed arms to come back collectively and create the pixl-latr x VALOI adapter, a easy, low-cost, and extremely efficient adapter for mounting a VALOI movie holder onto pixl-latr. Simplicity itself.

At £44.99 / US$62, pixl-latr is among the most cheap and versatile photographic movie digitisation techniques obtainable in the present day. Out of the field, the pixl-latr covers 35mm, 120 and 4×5 massive format movie (much more with its open gate platform).

Then again, VALOI’s movie holders, with their ingenious curved movie feed system, supply a considerably quicker method to digitise bigger quantities of 35mm and 120 roll movie with much less fuss — all whereas nonetheless holding the movie flat. Additionally they have an upcoming vary of customized holders, which will likely be protecting some area of interest codecs.

The pixl-latr x VALOI adapter, then, helps combines the 2 platforms, supplying you with the pixl-latr platform/mild diffuser on the one aspect, with VALOI’s distinctive movie holder on the opposite. Collectively, they symbolize a extra versatile platform that takes the perfect of every and however nonetheless maintains that accessible value level: the pixl-latr x VALOI adapter prices solely £12.49/US$18.

DSLR, Mirrorless and Smartphone scanning

Curiosity in movie and conventional images continues to develop, but conventional scanning choices appear to proceed to maneuver on comparatively glacial timescales. Actually, there was no change within the choices obtainable for high-speed, full-roll movie scanning choices from any of the standard suspects of movie scanner producers for greater than a decade.

It goes with out saying that in the present day’s market is just a fraction of what it was in movie images’s heyday and that’s the place corporations like VALOI, pixl-latr, Adverse Provide, and Cameradactyl have arrived to fill the area of interest: prime quality merchandise, each with and with out automation that serve the wants of movie photographers in the present day.

With trendy digital images simply surpassing the goal decision of many movie codecs in the present day, it’s attainable to make use of a DSLR, mirrorless, compact digital camera, or perhaps a smartphone to attain outcomes that match and even exceed, the outcomes they have been beforehand getting, even from high-end labs. It’s not the primary time this matter has been covered on EMULSIVE and received’t be the final.

Calling pixl-latr and VALOI “rivals” above, whereas technically right, doesn’t inform all of the story. I’ll let VALOI’s Arild Båsmo and pixl-latr’s Hamish Gill inform you themselves:

“VALOI began with the assistance of many individuals, and amongst them, Hamish from pixl-latr was maybe the loudest voice encouraging us to take it to Kickstarter.”

~ Arild Båsmo

“…our first collaboration is that this new adapter that brings two modular scanning techniques collectively. This strikes on the very core of what I consider VALOI is about – modularity and user-centric design, and I feel pixl-latr is an ideal match for our Holders.”

~ Hamish Gill

It’s a shared sentiment, as Hamish goes on to say:

“Working in collaboration to deliver our prospects extra choices and higher merchandise feels fairly good to me! We hope that is only the start too, who is aware of what we are able to deliver to the market after we proceed working alongside one another.”

~ Hamish Gill

What extra can I say than that? The pixl-latr x VALOI film holder is obtainable proper now and completely on the pixl-latr web site for £12.49/US$18, the place it may be purchased alongside the 135 and 120 VALOI movie holders at equally cheap costs.

Can now we have a motor-driven improve subsequent?

~ EM

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