Originally posted by y0chang It's a great idea if you're using a flatbed or dedicated film scanner, but I'm using a DSLR and copy stand to digitise, with an EFH film holder:
Here you can see it with (very flat) 35mm film in the holder:
The EFH is a good film holder, and the nicest part about it - IMHO - is that no part ever touches the exposed photos... only the edges of the film feed through the gap between the plates that hold it (reasonably) flat. Plus, it's easy to feed the film through for each frame, and that can really speed up the process of digitising each strip. But, with thin, curly 120 film stock, it's trickier to use - hence my interest in flattening the film as much as possible. I've also tried a Pixl-latr film holder, which does a better job of keeping negatives
completely flat, but is a real pain when it comes to feeding them through for each successive frame, and needs much more care because the film is in full contact with the diffuser base. So long as I can get my negatives flat enough, I think I'll continue with the EFH...