Great set of photos, Bob! Yes, I have discontinued using film and flatbed scanners for the most part, do almost all my negative and transparency scanning using a copy camera setup now … similar to yours in some ways, but a different camera and lens mix. *
It's an easy setup to master if you have a few basic pieces so I agree: anyone wanting to do film to digital capture nowadays and who already has an interchangeable lens camera should try the copy camera approach first, before spending money on any kind of scanner. G * My setup varies depending upon what format and film type I'm capturing. I work with formats from Minox 8x11 to 6x9cm so I need a range of different film holders and lenses. > On Nov 30, 2022, at 5:06 AM, Bob Pdml <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
