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 setups I've used is a micro-fourthirds camera fitted with ZD35mm macro lens and a Nikon ES-1 slide copying attachment. A 35mm frame is captured at about 1:3 and you can let the AF work for each frame, making for very crisp results. The same ES-1 fitted to a Micro-Nikkor 55mm mounted on Sony A7, Nikon D750, or Leica M-P also nets excellent results, with more pixels. But you have to manually focus, and carefully. A Spiratone Vario-Dupliscope does the same and allows you to do some cropping. But by and large, I have done most of my slide capture with a Nikon Super Coolscan 9000 which I set up to scan in batches of six at a time. It's the slowest process that takes the most work, but returns the best quality and consistency. Godfrey > On Sep 10, 2015, at 3:24 PM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> 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 calculations, the K-3 should give the equivalent of a 3840 dpi > scan. I've got an off-camera flash attachment, for illumination so I'm > hoping that once I get the bellows and lens combo set up correctly > that I won't have to move anything... just feed the slides in and out. > The old Bellows II is an m42 but I've seen people using them with > modern K-mount DSLRs, so I'm assuming it is possible. > > Those of you that have been down this road, any words of wisdom or > "gotchas" to look out for? Or are there other advantages to using the > scanner (like automatic dust removal, maybe?) that might convince me > to feed the scanner instead of this setup? > -- > Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
