>My mother was lent a box of photos at Xmas of family taken many years ago >(all B & W). She only has it for a few more days, and I'd love to copy them. >Of course, now would be a great time to own a camera stand, but I don't, so >any advice on taking copies with either the LX or MX with a 50mm F1.2. > >I don't own that much Pentax equipment <blush>.
Hi Malcolm, Once you've shot the selected pics using the excellent advice from Shel and others, feel free to send me the negs and I'll scan as many of them as you'd like at 2700 ppi and bang them onto CDs for you, saving in whatever format you want so you can later print out at will. If you are interested, contact me off list and I'll send you my address. The only thing I can ad is that if you use your camera to copy the pics onto neg, best not to use flash, ESPECIALLY mounted on the hotshoe. This will give you spectacular reflections on the prints. Ideally, two tungsten or flash sources either side of the camera, so that the light hits the print at about 45 degrees. Just as long the light source(s) are away from the camera to avoid reflections. If I'm out on a job filming, and a shot of a still photograph is required, but the still photo in question can't be taken away, then I cobble a make-shift rostrum thus: The video camera tripod cannot be orientated to view straight down, so (if indoors)I get a clipboard or large book and plonk it on a sofa, against the pillows, and lay the pics against that. If the pic is curly, I carry Blu-Tak (actually sits in a niche on the camera itself) and hold it down with that. Lighting is by one single redhead (800 watt tungsten light) placed about two three feet to the side of the camera. If outdoors (at a police station or wherever) I Blu-Tak the photo straight onto a brick wall that's in the shade. I never use the spirit-level built into the tripod - I always view the photo through the lens, and adjust the angle by eye to get the image parallel. Note that a lot of still images are not vertical anyway! So adjusting to get a decent vertical out of a family snap is sometimes not the easiest job on the planet. Cheers, Cotty _______________________________________________________ Personal email traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MacAds traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out the UK Macintosh ads http://www.macads.co.uk - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
