There use to be available an attachment for the end of the Pentax bellows
unit that allowed the copying of slides by a camera/lens setup. I have one,
I've used it - it worked well.
Other similar devices were available from other sources. If you can find
one, you could use your digital camera of choice and copy your slides that
way. Worth trying IMO.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Malcolm Smith" <[email protected]>
Subject: Slides and film question.
Some months ago I asked a question about how best to transfer slides to
digital images. All is good with that, and the slow scanning transfer
continues. Probably for several years as time allows.
However, I was asked the other day how to do this the other way, transfer
a
digital image to a 35mm slide. As I still live in the 1970s and shoot film
and have slide shows etc, that rather appealed to me to have a go myself.
A
look on-line showed there were companies out there who would do this, but
I
want to be able to have a try at this from home without the need for
further
expense in equipment. Obviously, companies aren't exactly up front on how
they achieve this, but I presume they are sent the images by e-mail,
convert
them to a certain standard pixel image size, and have some way of mounting
a
film camera to view the image in sort of dark room conditions to exclude
other light sources?
If it were a picture or a document, it would be more straight forward to
use
a duplicating stand with appropriate lighting. The only thing that came to
mind was taking a picture of the image on a computer screen in a darkened
room (image displayed at a size which would result in a full frame
capture,
camera tripod mounted), but I want to ensure that a quality image remains
a
quality image when transferred to film and projected (no pixels!). Those
companies doing this commercially are displaying the digital image on
something from which they take a film image; I just suspect that their
'something' is considerably better than I have available at home. I have
tried doing the above with a digital camera+tripod/computer screen, just
to
see how it comes out, and some results have been OK. I'm not aiming for
OK,
I'm aiming for good as a minimum, and it must be repeatable time after
time.
Anyone tried this or is it just me....? I thought this was also a
different,
although backwards technologically, method of keeping certain images
stored.
Malcolm
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