Neat stuff! They look very good.
This is basically how I've been working with some Minox 8x11mm
negatives. I use the DS, a 2x teleconverter, an extension tube set,
and an A50/2.8 Macro lens to net 2x magnification. With the Minox,
captures like this represent getting about a 5Mpixel image from those
teensy slivers of film which is much better than I can do with my
Epson 2450 or Minolta Scan Dual II scanners (about .9 and 1Mpixel
image data respectively).
From 4x5, well, the results are very good ... but you're losing a
tremendous amount of the available data. A 2400ppi scan with the 2450
would result in a 115Mpixel image ... WAY more resolution than
anything you could possibly need for a 16x20 presentation print! :-)
Godfrey
On Mar 16, 2006, at 12:37 PM, Vic MacBournie wrote:
Here is an interesting way to use your digital camera. I inherited
a pile of 4X5 negatives from my father who used to be a photograher
in halifax Canada. I decided i wanted to preserve the negatives
which already have begun to suffer from neglect etc. Scanning them
would take forever and it would be expensive since i did not have a
proper scanner for 4X5 inch negs. Solution: I put the negs on a
light table and shot them with my istD and macro lens. I then
brought them into photoshop and inverted them, tweaked them ....
Here are the results of the first few I've done... I am amazed at
the quality...
Vic
check them out
http://homepage.mac.com/sonpix/halifaxproject/PhotoAlbum45.html