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 to be very even and of the right colour temperature to make the job as easy as possible, too. I started digitising 242 slides from the late '60's last year, using an Optek scanner, but found there was significant unevenness in the light pattern, so switched to an Epson V500 to do the job. That scanner handles 4 slides at a time, and you can set the resolution to a very high number if you wish. Probably for web images you don't need such high resolution, so the scanner will complete the scan of each set more quickly than happened with mine, where I needed 2400dpi and dust removal as well!
HTH John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Darren Addy Sent: Friday, 11 September 2015 08:25 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Subject: Any words of wisdom for slides to DSLR with bellows + slide attachment? 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
