Originally posted by pres589 I copy my negatives with my K-5 II and a 105mm macro lens like described in your option B. The problem I have in recommending it to others is the software side of things; the best solution I've found is Negative Lab Pro plug-in with Lightroom 6. This works well but requires an existing copy of Lightroom 6; Negative Lab works with Lightroom CC but I don't want to move to subscription based software and I don't want to recommend it to others. The creator of Negative Lab has stated he has no interest (last I checked) to port his plug-in to some other platform.
RawTherapee and DarkTable both have negative processing capabilities. Snappiness has done some videos on YouTube about how he uses them along with his K-1 to digitize negatives. That said, having watched a number of videos comparing Negative Lab Pro to those options, NLP is definitely easier to use. I don’t get the aversion to the Adobe Photography plan. $9.99/mo gets you constant updates to fix bugs and add features. BTW, there is no product called Lightroom CC any more. You have Lightroom Classic, which is the ongoing evolution of Lightroom 6, and Lightroom, which is the less featured (No print module? WTF, Adobe?), cloud-based version. Scott Kelby tends to call it Lightroom Cloud, but he recently called it Lightroom for Children, and I think that is an even more accurate name.