For 35mm transparencies and negatives, a Spiratone Dupliscope II with the negative accessory (can't recall the name) is commonly available on EBay for $35-60 and does an excellent job. These units have a dedicated flat-field macro lens and use a T-mount to fit to nearly any camera.
In my experience, more than the equivalent of about 4000 dpi scan nets no additional advantage with most films. Only with some very high resolution films (exposed to maximize resolution with sturdy support, etc) is there any real value gained from the increased scan/capture resolution. In fact, the vast majority of hand-held work on standard color or B&W emulsions sees very very little gain between 2400 and 4000 dpi capture resolution. There's just very little additional real data there ... G > On May 31, 2016, at 8:00 AM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > > Interesting - I wonder how pixel shift would work with a setup like that. > > For 35mm slide film that would probably be an ideal solution. A 4000dpi scan > creates a ~22 megapixel file, smaller than a K3's. Converting color negs > might be a challenge. > > For medium format scans the file sized would still be somewhat small compared > to a scanner. A 6x7 scanned at 4000 dpi comes in at around 100 megapixels. > But if there is no need for such a huge file it would probably still be fine. > > Mark > >> On 5/31/2016 7:19 AM, Malcolm Smith wrote: >> Much to my surprise, I've only just discovered that Pentax have a product in >> this market for slide and film copying, which was shown in Japan in 2014 as >> a prototype but is on sale now - no idea how long it has been out, but it >> costs approx £850 without accessories in the one place I've found it in the >> UK. >> >> Product link: http://www.ricoh-imaging.co.uk/en/duplicator.html >> >> Further info: >> z` >> >> It looks very much like the bellows set of old reinvented for the digital >> age, and given it was launched before the K1, talks about set up with K3 & >> 645 lenses. Usefully, it's capable of taking images of film of various >> formats (provided you buy the relevant accessories to do so). >> >> A product that once again Pentax is very much late to the party for, but >> their products are normally well worth the wait. I wonder if anyone has seen >> this and can tell us more. >> >> I'm really interested in this. >> -- 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.
