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 <godd...@me.com> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
