I used an old m42 screw mount bellows for several years with my
snowflake photos. I was leery about putting the m42 to K adapter onto
DSLR / SLR, just because removing the adapter can be fiddly. So I put
the adapter on a 12mm extension tube and mounted the bellows on that,
then mounted the tube onto the camera. No worries about quickly
dismounting the bellows and using the camera. I saw light falloff in
the corners of the SLR's I used this rig with (I was using that bellows
set back when I was shooting snowflakes on 35mm film) but no light
falloff on the APS C DSLR.
Personally I'd use the scanner - it would probably be slower but if you
can load up a set of slides and batch scan them then it may be less
demanding on your time, even if slower. The only thing I'd worry about
is if the DMax of the scanner is up for the slides - scanning slides can
be a challenge.
Mark
On 9/10/2015 6:24 PM, Darren Addy wrote:
We have a web project at work that involves digitizing some 35mm slides.
I have an Epson Perfection V600 Photo which could do the job, but I
decided to snag a Pentax Bellows II and slide attachment off of eBay
and hope to do the job with my K-3.
By my calculations, the K-3 should give the equivalent of a 3840 dpi
scan. I've got an off-camera flash attachment, for illumination so I'm
hoping that once I get the bellows and lens combo set up correctly
that I won't have to move anything... just feed the slides in and out.
The old Bellows II is an m42 but I've seen people using them with
modern K-mount DSLRs, so I'm assuming it is possible.
Those of you that have been down this road, any words of wisdom or
"gotchas" to look out for? Or are there other advantages to using the
scanner (like automatic dust removal, maybe?) that might convince me
to feed the scanner instead of this setup?
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