Depending on what quality you need and how many slides you have, the cheap way I used may work:
To make a digital slide show to run at my son's rehearsal dinner, I pulled slides from different times during his childhood, and had his fiancee's mother send me some of hers--maybe 60 or 70 slides in all. I set up my K-5 with 50mm macro lens on an inverted tripod, over my light box. I made a mask to shield everything but the image area of the slide. Centered it, focused using live view, and exposed. I got very usable DNG files that I touched up and converted to jpgs. Rick On Sep 10, 2015, at 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? > -- > Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
