The Essential Film Holder Kit, which received our Gold Test award last August, is about to reach its 10,000 sales milestone. The kit, described by our chief tester Andy Westlake as “an elegant and affordable holder for digitising film,” sells for £90. The idea came about after Andrew Clifforth (below), an electronics engineer and corporate executive by background, tired of the variable results he was getting with a flatbed scanner. “I am very much into photography and I just wanted an easy way to digitise film negatives,” he explains. A negative experience with scanners “I found my flatbed scanner frustrating, as the results were fairly random. I did some research and found out you could digitise negatives with a digital camera and the rest followed on from there. At the time, an exquisitely made Negative Supply film carrier, which supported 35mm and 120mm format film, would have cost about £1400 in total, which I thought was somewhat expensive for the task of keeping negatives perfectly flat.” The first lockdown gave Andrew the opportunity to work on the project and he came up with the Essential Film Holder. “When it launched in March 2020 I told my father in law […]
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