Yes very charming!
Tom C.
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
To: PDML <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Subject: Re: Halifax project
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:04:55 -0800
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
