John Coyle wrote: > The fastest slide copier I've ever used is an Otek, which must use a > sensor covering the whole field of a 35mm frame (negative or slide), > and uses an internal light source and flat field lens: each frame takes > less than a second to copy to a CF card. The drawback is that the > illumination is slightly uneven, so there is a vignetting effect. If > the manufacturers were able to develop the system to eliminate that, it > would be a winner. It has been marketed under various brand names, I > think. > I've used bellows and flash arrangements before, and the significant > issues have tended to be evenness of illumination and getting the > subject aligned so that there is no focus fall off at any edge of the > frame. > > I'm currently using an Epson V500 to digitise my archives, and there is > no doubt it is a slow process. There is also the need to correct the > scans in PS for dust removal, as I found that using ICE technology (at > the medium setting) blocked up shadow areas, so that, for example, a > child's eyes looked like something out of a horror movie!
I still have my film bellows set and Pentax slide copier A. I have, on occasion, used it with a K7 and found it fantastically frustrating to set up. I have produced some good captures from it, but taken far longer than if I'd just scanned them - and without all the setting up time, getting angry and having to go for a walk. I'm using the V600, and I spend ages trying to ensure the slide is as dust free as I can before scanning, as it is another job to remove visible dust and correct other horrors! Malcolm -- 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.
