RE: Any words of wisdom for slides to DSLR with bellows + slide attachment?

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

Re: Any words of wisdom for slides to DSLR with bellows + slide attachment?

I suspect the scanner will do a better job. My Epson 850 makes gorgeous scans from 35 mm transparencies. Just printed a razor sharp and beautifully rendered 18 x12 print from a 30 year old Kodachrome. Paul via phone > On Sep 10, 2015, at 7:33 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >

Re: Any words of wisdom for slides to DSLR with bellows + slide attachment?

Darren, I never found the right lens combination to use with the bellows to capture the whole slide. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Darren Addy wrote: > We have a web project at work that involves digitizing some 35mm slides. > I have an Epson Perfection

Re: Any words of wisdom for slides to DSLR with bellows + slide attachment?

I've scanned many, many slides over the years using all manner of different setups. Each has its pluses and minuses. I worry about using older bellows units with DSLRs because of dust. Bellows are great at capturing dust in their many nooks and crannies. One of the more successful copy

Re: Any words of wisdom for slides to DSLR with bellows + slide attachment?

I used an old m42 screw mount bellows for several years with my snowflake photos. I was leery about putting the m42 to K adapter onto DSLR / SLR, just because removing the adapter can be fiddly. So I put the adapter on a 12mm extension tube and mounted the bellows on that, then mounted the

RE: Any words of wisdom for slides to DSLR with bellows + slide attachment?

Mark C. mentioned light fall off using a bellows setup, and I have had the same issues with a similar arrangement. I also found it very fiddly to establish focus, even using auto-focus, and it was all too easy to knock the set up out of kilter when putting the slides in. The light source has

Re: Any words of wisdom for slides to DSLR with bellows + slide attachment?

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