Scan film with the Nikon ES-2 film scanner

The Nikon ES-2 film scanner adapter promises to be an easy way of scanning slides and negatives with your Nikon camera. We tested it with a bunch of different film stocks and discovered that the ES-2 works pretty well!

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[ETILHK]

It is funny that even after all the evolution in digital photography over the past 20 years or so, film still does it's thing perfectly well.

[Missbagpipernorthwest]

I just finished digitizing 1, 460 Kodachrome slides my father-in-law took in Europe during their seven years there. The system was very easy to use and while it is very time consuming, and I did edit nearly every one of them because the Kodachrome has started taking on a bluish cast due to its age--1960's. Thanks for the vid, it assisted me in getting started. Now I am beginning to tackle old negatives starting in 1981.

[fgc]

This is so cool! Every camera manufacturer should make one of these!

[AdamBuker]

I'd like to see Jordan shoot an episode DPReview on 16mm.

[Pete]

There are some really good shots in there.

[songochang]

Young Chris looks like asian Linus from linustechtips xD

[ikebeRatLM]

0:09 is like some dude in a nu metal band with a stage name, like, DJ Chrispy Chris lol.

[sinthailim]

Hi, I have checked with a retail store and read the instruction booklet. This kit does not work with the 105mm macro (as you mentioned). It is beyond the focusing distance allowed by the scanner.

[ElGrecoDaGeek]

Chris, I love the photo of the leaf on the street. Epic.

[zfisher]

Man, file this under "things I didn't know I desperately needed"

[xmlthegreat]

Who's the cute little doggo at 2:09? Would he be amenable to appearing in a few videos?

[AndrewJones-tjet]

When using these film adapters you should also turn off IBIS and lens optical stabilisation.

[jklphoto]

I own the ES-1, which is still available for half the price and is very usable for mounted slides. As he states, shoot NEF for maximum flexibility. This newer system, the ES-2 is much more convenient with the built-in mode to reverse negative film. A much-improved workflow!

[AgnostosGnostos]

The Nikon es-2 film digitizing adapter set works fine on a Sony a7 series camera with a full frame e-mount lens around 40-60mm. The adapter screws to a 52mm or 62mm filter thread.
If your full frame e-mount lens doesn't have a 52mm or 62mm filter thread you need a cheap step-up or step-down ring to 52mm or 62mm. Also if your e-mount lens can't focus very close you need a cheap extension tube which will permit the lens to focus closer.
The step-up or step-up down ring and the extension tube can be found very easily on eBay with a total cost around 20-40€.

[Foxholeatheist]

I've shot a few thousand negatives with an ES-2 over the past few months. I did have a D610, and was using Control My Nikon to control it to shoot the film With CMN, you can switch Live View to a show a negative of the image and get an idea of what it looks like, even when the camera is shooting in RAW. Having now bought a D850, I find that I get better color out of the negative-conversion algorithm in the camera. (Probably a better reflection of my lack of post skills than anything else.) Use a Lume Cube 2.0 with diffuser as a light source. Pretty slick so far.

[Raychristofer]

Outstanding job on this Chris, I shoot and scan lots of film and just did a tutorial on my channel of ilford sfx infrared film. This adapter is so much simpler than the Epson scanner I use. I'm going to check this out I'm curious if it will work on micro 4/3.

[s.vancourt]

Technically, the ES-2 will not work with the 105mm lens to make a 1:1 copy unless you can extend the distance from the front of the lens to the ES-2 by a considerable amount (314mm from the sensor). I have read that one workaround is to use 17 UV filters (with the glass removed) attached to the front of the lens.

[forewarnedfilm]

Don’t dis the HP5! - that was my go-to film stock when I was at college - over 30 years ago... I also remember hand processing XP1 film back then, though I was glad when XP2 came out, and you could just hand it to a lab. Ahhh, analog!

[hmApollo]

Could you guys ever do an analog review series?

[HazaraTechnic]

You lived in UK and doesn't change your accent.
I like that.