I've scanned a lot of slides on my Epson all-in-one (RX500, which has a slide scanner built in), and a few with my light table, a macro lens, and a digital SLR.
The big advantage of the SLR method is that one gets a RAW file, that one can import into Lightroom and play with. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Mon, 7/26/10, Northeast Media <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Northeast Media <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Slide copier for Pentax > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, July 26, 2010, 6:37 PM > I have a a similar device but not an > Opteka for duplicating slides.. > > It is reasoanble but my biggest problem is the quality of > my old slides - I guess we all have to start > somewhere. > > I have some examples attached to teh bottom of this > article. > > http://film-photography.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_to_copy_photographic_slides > > > One thing I found was I uses my flash to provide the light > and bounced it off a mirror to get it back in the > duplicator. The diffuser on the front of my duplicator means > you need a reasonable amount of light to get a good copy. > > they might not be professional standard but for digitising > family snapshots they are good and fast. > > Phil > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Igor Roshchin" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 6:52 AM > Subject: Slide copier for Pentax > > > > > > I wonder if anybody has used this combination: > > http://www.amazon.com/Opteka-Copier-Pentax-Digital-Camera/dp/B0017WCKTE > > and > > http://www.amazon.com/Slide-Negative-Carrier-Opteka-Copiers/dp/B0011N43H6/ > > ? > > > > > > > > Igor > > > > > > > > -- 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. > -- 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.
