Stare Down - 1985
The original image was shot on Kodachrome 64 color slide film, Nikon F2A camera, 400mm f5.6 manual focus lens, and I used a portable blanket blind. I think I'd managed only two shots of this fellow before it shied and bolted.
I converted the slide image into digital image using a Nikon slide holder and Nikon Bellows with a rather vintage 10 megapixel Nikon D200 DSLR and a 55mm Micro-Nikkor lens. I used a Vivitar 283 electronic flash to illuminate the slide in the slide holder.
The bellows+lens combo tends to over crop the original image quite a bit and the resulting copy is of questionable quality.
As you can see, this image here is a '2nd generation' copy . And, as expected, I'd neither nailed the colour nor the detail as shown on the original slide. It would have been better if I had it professionally digital scanned. Nevertheless, the above setup is an inexpensive way to convert a slide image into a digital image.
Stare Down - 1985
The original image was shot on Kodachrome 64 color slide film, Nikon F2A camera, 400mm f5.6 manual focus lens, and I used a portable blanket blind. I think I'd managed only two shots of this fellow before it shied and bolted.
I converted the slide image into digital image using a Nikon slide holder and Nikon Bellows with a rather vintage 10 megapixel Nikon D200 DSLR and a 55mm Micro-Nikkor lens. I used a Vivitar 283 electronic flash to illuminate the slide in the slide holder.
The bellows+lens combo tends to over crop the original image quite a bit and the resulting copy is of questionable quality.
As you can see, this image here is a '2nd generation' copy . And, as expected, I'd neither nailed the colour nor the detail as shown on the original slide. It would have been better if I had it professionally digital scanned. Nevertheless, the above setup is an inexpensive way to convert a slide image into a digital image.