My New Film Digitizing Setup
Here's my new setup for digitizing 35mm film! I bought a Nikon ES-2 film digitizing adapter that is designed for use with certain Nikon macro lenses. But I ended up mounting it on the front of an Olympus 30mm f/3.5 macro lens (using a step up ring), and it works great. The prescribed Nikon macro lens for this with an APS Nikon DSLR is their 40mm macro, resulting in 60mm equivalent full frame focal length. Hence, with its 2x crop factor on Olympus micro four thirds, the 30mm lens is perfect. The camera is mounted on a ball head which is attached to an L.L Rue "Groofwin Pod" which I happen to have laying around and it too works perfectly for this application - making for a nice stable tabletop camera support. I have all this pointing toward my lightbox, and of course I'm using a remote release to prevent camera shake.
The first thing I'm using this for is to digitize all my father's old 35mm slides. I'll no doubt post a few of those here and there while I make my way through this project. It could take awhile, as I have several binders full of his slides!
My New Film Digitizing Setup
Here's my new setup for digitizing 35mm film! I bought a Nikon ES-2 film digitizing adapter that is designed for use with certain Nikon macro lenses. But I ended up mounting it on the front of an Olympus 30mm f/3.5 macro lens (using a step up ring), and it works great. The prescribed Nikon macro lens for this with an APS Nikon DSLR is their 40mm macro, resulting in 60mm equivalent full frame focal length. Hence, with its 2x crop factor on Olympus micro four thirds, the 30mm lens is perfect. The camera is mounted on a ball head which is attached to an L.L Rue "Groofwin Pod" which I happen to have laying around and it too works perfectly for this application - making for a nice stable tabletop camera support. I have all this pointing toward my lightbox, and of course I'm using a remote release to prevent camera shake.
The first thing I'm using this for is to digitize all my father's old 35mm slides. I'll no doubt post a few of those here and there while I make my way through this project. It could take awhile, as I have several binders full of his slides!