> On May 1, 2023, at 9:54 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godfreydigio...@me.com> wrote: > > I scan a few slides and negatives from time to time using a copy-camera > approach now, with very good quality results. That's a doable prospect, > rather than doing hundreds to thousands of slides.
> On May 1, 2023, at 10:54 AM, Bob W PDML <pdm...@icloud.com> wrote: > > I’ve been using a Pentax Slide Holder 1X K with Pentax K extension tube #3, a > reversing adapter, and a Pentax-M 50mm macro attached to a MFT* digital > camera, lit by a Kaiser light table. It’s very quick and the results are > good, at least for use as proofs. > … > *with a full-frame digital camera a different set of tubes/lens might be > needed but the principle is the same of course, and there would be increased > resolution from not cropping the unused bits of the 4/3rds frame. But I don’t > have a full frame colour digital camera. BobW, Sounds like my setup but instead of a dedicated slide holder attachment for the camera, I use a macro lens and a film carrier with the camera on a copy stand and a flat-panel light box providing the illumination. It's a bit more setup work, but very flexible. The film carrier I use is "The Essential Film Holder" … I have frames and guides for 35mm slide, strip, 24x65 ultrawide 35, 6x4.5, 6x6, and 6x9 formats. For 35mm slides, I mostly use the Leica CL (APS-C format) which allows a lower magnification to fill the frame and nets about 22-24 Mpixel depending on how fussy I am with framing setup. For capture speed, it's best to be a little loose and lose a couple Mpixels with cropping in post. Lately, I've been using the Leica M10-M for B&W negatives: It has more dynamic range than the color sensor and with 40 Mpixel full frame I can get extremely nice results even with 6x6 negatives (resulting scan is ~26 Mpixel to capture a full square neg). Here's a little Flickr.com album where I document the camera setup, the EFH, and show a couple of recent slide scans I did with an old slide or three I found in my files from high school days. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAhtoP If anyone is interested in The Essential Film Holder, see https://clifforth.co.uk/ for details. G — No matter where you go, there you are. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
