Kim, I recommend watching this video. His presentation seems painfully slow, but he's got his facts together. He has a work-around to achieve the full slide with a APS-C crop DSLR (Pentax). He also speaks to it out-performing a 3200dpi scanner (dependent upon the aperture you shoot at and the MP of the DSLR) A very good tutorial if you can exercise the patience to watch & listen to what he is showing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh8vJCvsZtY On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Malcolm Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Kim Tang wrote: > >> I recall someone was recently exploring digitizing slides with with a >> DSLR and bellows. May I please ask, how did that work and what was the >> setup? >> >> How does it compare quality-wise to a flat-bed scanner or film scanner? > > In recent times I've tried several methods of scanning slides. In reverse > order from worst to best in my opinion: > > 4. Bellows and Slide Copier A - just too fiddly setting it up for one slide > at a time. > 3. Nikon Coolscan IV film scanner - better products available now and this > is slow, one slide at a time. > 2. Nikon D800, tripod, 60mm lens and slide copier attachment. For good > slides, a good method, but again one at a time. > 1. Epson V600 flat bed scanner. Excellent results and scans 4 slides at a > time. In hindsight, a V850 would have been better, as I understand it > tackles 12 slides at a time, both are great with negatives and photograph > scanning. > > Overall, time has moved on and the best results come from scanning with the > Epson, and has none of the setting up issues that using a camera has. > > Malcolm > > > -- > 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. -- “The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness ” ― Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Earth from Above -- 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.
