I was not exactly quiet about how much I liked the original Valoi easy35. Before using it, I had largely written off camera scanning as one of those workflows that sounded great in theory, but in practice involved too much setup, too much faffing, and too many opportunities to get something slightly wrong. The first easy35 changed that for me. It took the most annoying parts of camera scanning, such as holding film flat, keeping the camera aligned, blocking stray light, and setting the right distance from the lens, and packed them into a single, compact system.
The easy35 v2 is not a complete rethink of the concept, and I do not think it needed to be. This is still a compact film-scanning unit that screws onto the front of a macro lens and lets you photograph 35mm negatives or other small film formats with a digital camera. The resulting files then need to be inverted and processed separately in software, but the capture stage is about as simple as camera scanning gets.
