Anyone ever work on a 343? Have one that needs a new rubber belt, as it slips, and haven't yet coughed up the $500 to send it in for a full service. Any recommendations? Its not getting a lot of use, but it worked well enough....
I actually found it pretty easy to get the belt. Got two off eBay if I remember correctly, just need to put the size into a search and should find the exact same belts.
I've seen a similar solution to the one Doug sells, and it looks great, but you can actually do something similar with
A copy stand
Lightbox
Ruler
DSLR
Macro lens or extension tubes
Ive recently shot about 8000 frames for a friend, to document some archive rolls he had. (Photographer called Tom Wood, similar to Martin Parr)
Results turned out good enough to use to print at the same sort of size the op would like, in fact we could do 20x24 if we really wanted. Color neg is a bit of a pain to edit, but b&w much easier. Color trans should be really easy. I've been using a Sony A7riii with either a Pentax 645 120 macro or a p645 75mm with extension tubes. We have a little curling on some of the shots but, had thousands to do so was a quick process, you could always tape down using some tape for drum scanning if you can find it.