Features
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Compact, lightweight 35mm film scanning system
Attaches directly to a macro lens; no copy stand required
Built-in redesigned Universal Light Source with 99% uniformity and 95+ CRI
Optimized color balance for negative pre-correction
Supports smaller film formats (sold separately)
Easy to use!
Product Details
Scanning Perfected: Professional Quality, Pocket-Sized Convenience.
Achieve professional-grade scans at home with the VALOI easy35 v2. Built on countless hours of development and refined through years of user feedback, it's engineered to streamline your workflow. This plug-and-play tool attaches directly to your macro lens, scanning 35mm film and smaller formats up to 10× faster than a flatbed. The easy35 v2 is a complete redesign of VALOI's most popular camera-scanning tool, featuring significant mechanical and illumination upgrades. By attaching directly to your macro lens, it eliminates bulky copy stands and tripods, providing a stable, light-tight environment for high-resolution digitizing.
easy35 V2 Key Upgrades:
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Universal Light Source (patent pending): A leap from 81% to 99% light uniformity. This ensures edge-to-edge illumination even with wide-angle lenses, effectively eliminating the "orange corners" and vignetting issues common in home scanning.
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Optimized Color Balance: The fixed color temperature is tuned to pre-balance the orange mask of color negatives and works equally well for black-and-white negatives and positive film.
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Precision Engineering: The V2 transitions from 3D-printing to an injection-molded ABS body for the main unit and features an all-metal rotation mechanism, delivering 5–10× tighter tolerances overall. A 5-point spring-loaded ball-bearing system ensures your film holder locks perfectly in place, keeping film perfectly parallel to the sensor.
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Smart Power Management: Battery life has been doubled to over 4 hours. The new Smart Battery Bypass allows you to run on direct USB-C power for marathon sessions without draining or heating the battery.
Magnetic Accessory Mount: Now features a magnetic interface for the easy35 Duster, making it faster than ever to clean film on the fly.
User Specifications:
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Out-of-the-Box: Ready for standard 35mm film.
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Interchangeable Holders for Multiple Formats: Optional holders available for 35mm Sprockets, 35mm Slides, 35mm half-frame, APS, 110, 126, and Minox.
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Build: Premium injection-molded ABS body with anodized, super-matte aluminum distance tubes
- Fits most macro lenses
What's Included:
- VALOI easy35 V2 body with Universal Light Source
- Standard 35mm Film Holder
- Distance Tube Kit (1x 10mm, 1x 20mm, 5x 40mm, 230mm total)
- Full Set of Filter Thread Adapters: 39mm, 46mm, 49mm, 52mm, 55mm, 58mm, 67mm
- (filter thread adapters are not needed for lenses with a 62mm filter thread size, as this is the native thread size of the easy35)
- USB-C Charging Cable
- Does not include digital camera or macro lens, which are required to scan film
Compatibility
The easy35 V2 works within the easy35 V2 system, including easy35 V2 accessories such as the easy35 V2 Duster and easy35 V2 Slide Holder, as well as all other optional easy35 V2 format-specific holders (35mm Sprockets, 35mm Half Frame, APS, 126, 110, and Minox film formats). It is not backward compatible with the original easy35 system, easy120 or VALOI 360 system. easy35 V1 film holders can be used on the easy35 V2, but without the secure locking offered by the V2 holders.
Technical Specifications:
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easy35 V2 |
easy35 V1 |
| LED CRI |
95+ |
95+ |
| LED Uniformity |
99% |
81% |
| Output White Balance |
6000K+ |
3150K - 5250K |
| LED Count |
16 |
81 |
| Brightness |
17EV |
16.5EV |
| Diffusion Type |
Reflective dome (pat. pending) |
Direct diffusion |
| Charging |
USB-C |
USB-C |
| Battery Time |
4h+ |
2h+ |
| Battery Size |
4500 mAh |
3000 mAh |
| Operating Time When Plugged In |
Unlimited |
5-6h from full charge |
| Holder Attachment |
Spring loaded |
Hex key tool |
| Rotation Mechanism |
Aluminum |
Nylon + aluminum |
| Body Material |
ABS, Injection-molded |
Nylon, MJF |
| Distance Tubes |
Aluminum |
Aluminum |
Camera Scanning Considerations:
Camera Body
Just about any semi-modern, interchangeable-lens digital camera will work great for camera scanning. There are many mirrorless or DSLR options to choose from with large lens catalogs, tethered capture capability, and excellent image quality. Some high end cameras can even use pixel stitching to deliver extremely high levels of resolution.
Macro Lens
For camera scanning, the one real requirement is that your lens focuses close enough to capture the entire frame. For full frame cameras and capturing 35mm film, the term “1:1” designates a lens that will reproduce the 35mm frame exactly onto the full frame digital sensor. With crop-sensor bodies, 1:1 lenses focus even closer. Outside of reproduction factor (1:1), also look out for lenses that are sharp, have good color reproduction, limit internal reflections (modern coatings), and have very little vignetting. Finally, it’s generally best to use your macro lens stopped down 2-3 stops from wide open, as this gives a good combination of depth of field and sharpness.
Software for Negative Conversion
There are a few plugins and standalone programs for converting captured negatives into positive images. Some older and some newer, all of them try to harness the color science based in darkroom paper to various degrees. After all, even a professional lab scanner is essentially a digital camera and a light source. Most of the options presented here allow you to download a demo version to try before you buy and determine which one best suits your workflow.
