# Novoflex bellows + Fujifilm GF63mm or Pentax SMC 120mm macro?

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**Category:** Digital Camera Scanning\
**Created:** [April 13, 2023, 2:46pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/novoflex-bellows-fujifilm-gf63mm-or-pentax-smc-120mm-macro/6148 "2023-04-13T14:46:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 8:06am UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/novoflex-bellows-fujifilm-gf63mm-or-pentax-smc-120mm-macro/6148/3 "2023-04-14T08:06:55Z")

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There is some information on here already, for example:

> [@Help with 'scanning' setup](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/help-with-scanning-setup/4891/3):
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> You are definitely looking for some high class equipement. Here are my thoughts on things… Camera: Fuji GFX 100s Great choice. Using a GFX50 myself. The 50 will outresolve the negatives already, so basically it depends on how big you want to print later. If printing is not your thing, the GFX50 is the better choice for colour vs. the GFX100. The 50 has been rated “exceptional” for colour reproduction. See “lens options” for further thoughts. Lens: Nikon Rayfact 2x (95mm, F2.8)? This is a bea…

Without any knowledge of Fuji MF I’d still say that it would be extraordinary if reversing Fuji standard lenses would work well for what is a very demanding task, flat field, high resolution to the corners etc.

Just thinking about the numbers, if say you have the 50MP GFX then full capture of 35mm format leaves you with 45MP from a 44mm x 29mm section. If you decide to crop in and just capture at 1:1 to use 36 x 24 mm of the sensor then you get 30MP. If you do the latter then any of the manual lenses recommended on here for full frame capture should work just as well provided you can fit them via a suitable adapter but your high end camera deserves a high end lens I would have thought, the 75mm Apo-Rodagon D 1x gets a lot of praise on here and I imagine that should be fine for the full 44mm x 29mm capture even though you’ll be going slightly beyond 1:1. However your camera is physically quite large so it might be less easy, or at least quite expensive, to fit on to suitable bellows etc.

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