Name: Lomography DigitaLIZA 35mm Scanning Mask Kit
Brand: Lomography
SKU: CZLD35K
Price: 39.90 USD
Availability: Discontinued
Rating: 4.6 (13 reviews)

Lomography DigitaLIZA 35mm Scanning Mask Kit

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Top Rated Gear: Lomography DigitaLIZA 35mm Scanning Mask Kit Accessory Type: Scanner Mask

Used with a modern flatbed scanner, the DigitaLIZA holds your 35mm negatives in place so you can scan them. Specially designed allow for the scanning of sprocket hole photos, overlapping exposures and endless panoramas! Used with modern flatbed scanners with a backlight unit, you can conveniently scan special formats such as sprocket holes, endless panorama and overlapping exposures - something that a standard 35mm scanning mask can't do. The DigitaLIZA's innovative magnetic mechanism holds the highly sensitive negatives in place to give you the utmost convenience, control and creativity.

The best part is the simplicity of the product and its well thought out design. The entire length of the negative strip is exposed, no separators for individual frames which favors panoramic images and no need to line up individual frames either as with other negative carriers. Almost the entire negative is visible including the sprockets so you can capture the complete frame. The magnets that hold the negative in place are strong, but a bit of care is still necessary so it stays put while manipulating the carrier since it is gripping a narrow strip of the negative on either edge top and bottom. If you need to digitize negatives, choose this product.

Ideal negative carrier

Tried a few strips of film with various levels of curliness and it kept it quite flat, better than the holder that came with my Epson scanner. Much easier to use than that holder as well as you aren't fighting with the strip to get it to line up, just center and clip. Note, I bought this to start scanning with my camera, it does work with an Epson V600, but you do have to keep it a small distance away from the back otherwise it will flag an error on the scanner. For pixel peepers, you may find it's not at the perfect focusing distance for the scanner, so another consideration.

Streamlines scanning and keeps film flat

It does work, and is especially nice if you want to include more of the film (35mm in my case) in the digital shot. But it doesn’t hold the film as flat as I’d hoped; there is some arching. Perhaps unavoidable.

Works well but film not absolutely flat

Negative carrier

While the price does seem somewhat steep, the mask holds even my curliest 35mm negatives flat. I have not used it with a dedicated scanner but it works quite well to create DSLR scans. I would recommend this scanning mask as it has made my film workflow much easier and faster (allowing me to scan a roll in a matter of minutes as opposed to an hour+).

Pricey, but works as advertised

If you have any strips that are curled then this product won't do well trying to make them lay flat. I have some expired Gold 200 that's tough and curled so it's very hard to install the strip and scan with this. Used it with some HP5 that was slightly curled and worked good enough. Overall happy with it and would recommend if you are scanning flat strips though, works great.

Great for Flat Film Strips

I can't get it to hold the film, let alone hold it flat. The width of the opening is 33mm, which leaves only 1mm on each side of the mask to grip the film edge. And if there's any curl at all to the film, it just doesn't grip. If the opening were, say 28 mm. wide it might grip.

It just doesn't grip the film

Excellent. Just what I needed to use with my digital camera to digitize my negatives. It holds them flat to make the copies

Holds the negatives flat for copying

Amazing product

I think this holds the negative flatter than the standard epson holder that came with my scanner, and allows me to scan the sprockets (which is why I bought it). It worked with no trouble on my epson v600, just make sure you position around that area the standard holder would position the strip.
This will not scan 100% of your film strip because it holds it by the top and bottom, but just barely. It works enough for what I'm using it for. 
Anyway, I would recommend.

Works as I expected it to

I use this with an Epson V500 scanner.  It is generally easier to use than the mask provided with the scanner.  The design allows you to scan the entire film area including sprocket holes if that is what you wish.  For this scanner, a minor disadvantage is that you can't just slap it down on the scanner and get everything lined up as you can with the Epson mask.  I ended up cutting a cardboard strip the length of the scanning bed and wide enough so that I can put the mask up against the strip and the film will all be underneath the scanning window.  You will not be able to scan thumbnails, however--you'll have to block out each frame individually.  This makes it slower than using the Epson mask, and the Epson mask also allows you to scan two strips, so keep this in mind.  Overall, the Lomo 35mm mask is not as great an improvement over the Epson mask as is the 120 size Lomo mask (the Epson one truly sucks).

Good negative mask

I wasn't sure how good this would work, but since moving to a DSLR based scanning process, I needed a better scanning mask than the one that came with the scanner I was using. This holds the negatives flat, and grabs them just at the very edges so you can get sprocket holes if you want them. Even with negatives that had significant curling and cupping, this held them flat and enabled quick scanning.

Surprisingly great

Great product, does what it supposed to do.