The light-pad I ordered arrived about an hour ok, so I made my first investigative foray into shooting negatives and slides with my M typ262, 50mm Summicron lens and the BOOWU-M copy stand.
I shot some Kodachrome 25, Scala, colour neg and BW neg, all with the stand at the A4 setting. Some of these were in their sleeve, some I took out. None of them had glass on top to flatten them. That is something I need to get. Out of curiosity I also shot one K25 slide, from France in 1979, at the A6 setting, cropped it in LR and auto-adjusted. https://adobe.ly/2KfnGOv I’m quite pleased with the results. They do what I wanted, which was to find a quick way of making an index ‘contact’ print of a whole roll. I can catalogue it in LR and file the slides and negs in a way that makes things findable when I want to do a better scan of some of them, for family and friends. It also makes them reasonably browsable, so I can see what I have after over 40 years of photography. This set-up won’t work for high quality individual scans because A6 is the smallest 1:1 it can do. But there are plenty of ways to scan individual frames, including my Nikon LS4000 if necessary. I don’t know how to invert the negatives in LR on my iPad or iPhone, and I don’t have a windows machine at the moment, but that’s quite minor - if anyone does know, please spill the beans. -- 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.
