The product of the slide you shot looks very painterly! Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>*
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 11:27 AM Bob Pdml <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
