A box of family negatives from the eighties, a flatbed that took four minutes per strip, and a camera that was mostly sitting in a drawer. Camera scanning won.
Expose for the orange mask: push the histogram as far right as it goes without clipping any channel, at base ISO. Shoot RAW. Focus manually with magnification on the grain, not on the image.
Inverting colour negatives by hand is a rabbit hole. Sample the film base from an unexposed edge, divide it out per channel, then invert and set levels per roll rather than per frame. Frames from the same roll look like they belong together that way.
About 400 frames in a weekend, against an estimated month on the flatbed.