Interesting how my comments have aged! Haha. I’d like to correct a mistake I made - I said it wasn’t designed for prints - that’s partly correct, but it’s not the full story. The scanner has a setting for prints, that isn’t it’s purpose though and it was designed to scan good condition negatives not for film older than 30-40 years. Take a look at what Blackmagic said it was designed for in 2015 when they launched it, and also the 2014 pre-launch tech preview.
I think this scanner should work like a charm with 35mm copies but they’re not going to tell: “Now you can finally scan all your 35mm theatrical copies for a reasonable price” on their site since it’s not completely legal to own one. That was the goal of my initial post.
Actually, most professional scanner manufacturers are the ones that really don’t care about prints since they’re owned by archives instead of by wealthy rightsholders who can afford to pay for premium scanning, and in most cases you never need to scan a print for restoration. So if it did do a fantastic job for prints then Blackmagic would not be shy about using it as a selling point (Lasergraphics uses it as a selling point), prints are much more difficult to scan well compared to negatives so if a scanning machine can scan prints well then it can definitely scan negatives well.