I wrote a longish reply yesterday to Larry and John in Stan’s thread about scanning, but the server told me to f*ck off even though the only vaguely HTMLy stuff was John and Larry’s email addresses, which the server itself had sent me! Won’t eat its own dog food.
Anyway, these photos illustrate what I was saying about how I’m now ‘scanning’. The pictures were shot in 1998/9 on Kodachrome, I can’t remember which zoo it was. Almost certainly shot with a Pentax LX, Pentax-A 400mm f5.6 lens and possibly a 1.4X extender. I digitised them and a bunch of others yesterday using a LUMIX GX8 attached via a Novoflex MFT/PENT adapter to a Pentax-M 50mm f4 macro. This was attached with a 49mm reversing adapter to a Pentax auto extension tube #3 which in turn was attached to a slide holder 1X K. This gives a 1:1 reproduction ratio which means there is very little cropping needed to make the 4/3rds image fit the original 35mm format. With a full frame body it would be even easier, but my only full frame digital camera only does black and white. The light source was a Kaiser slimlite plano. I used focus peaking, lowest ISO available, f/8 and Aperture priority. The point of all this is that I find the whole process and outputs much better, quicker and easier than a scanner. I used to have a Nikon LS1000 (?) but the process was awful and the results nowhere near as good as I’m getting now. So my recommendation to anyone thinking of getting a scanner is, try this first, it really is surprisingly good and simple. > < https://adobe.ly/3gMZ5V7 <https://adobe.ly/3gMZ5V7> > > > Will comment if the server lets this through. > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
