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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!
Taken in Grand Teton NP at the Oxbow Bend of the Snake River.
Mamiya RZ67, 150mm Sekor lens
Kodak Ektachrome film
Digitized with a Fuji GFX 100s and 105mm Micro-Nikkor
Digitized with Fujifilm X-T3
Six years, still there. Guess leaves don't always leave. Even after death, just like memories.
Test shot with Kodak Ektar 203mm f7.7 lens at f16 (crop).
Camera: Shen Hao HZX45-IIA
Lens: Kodak Ektar 203mm f7.7
Film: Fomapan Classic 4x5
Aperture: f16
Exposure: 1/5
Developed in Kodak TMax developer 1:4 dilution.
Digitized with Sony A7R3.
Digitized with Negative Lab Pro v2.1.2
Chinon CE4 | Ilford HP5+ 400
Digitized with Epson Perfection V600 Photo + Negative Lab Pro v2.1.2 | Epson
Home developed in Paranol S 1+50 | 25/20 | Kodak
Original slide taken December 26th, 2023 on Kodak Elite Chrome 100, exposed at 80, expired 2007, which due to loss in sensitivity was underexposed about a stop. The camera was a Canon EOS Elan 7E, lens a Tamron 85mm f/1.8 DI VC USD, at f/4 and 1/60 with vibration control turned on. Home developed in Arista E-6 kit. Both images are roughly 80% crops of the 35mm frame. Both have had curves edited to my taste, though saturation was not changed.
The left image is an Epson 4490 scan at 2400 dpi, in 16-bits per channel with scanner autoexposure turned off. This is the practical upper limit of Epson flatbeds, higher dpi settings do not resolve more detail. I have read this is due to the quality of the scanner lens.
The right image is taken with a Pentax K-1 DSLR with Pixel Shift for 1.3 seconds at a 12 second timer with mirror lock up, with the SMC Pentax-D FA 50mm F2.8 Macro lens at f/8 and perhaps 1:1.3 magnification, on a DIY SmallRig copystand, using a white image on an iPhone 11 as the backlight, and a plastic snapping slide mount as a carrier, resting on top of a spare lens hood to provide distance between the light and film. This is an early alpha version of the rig I will set up when all parts arrive. The camera was secondhand and came with a battery that only holds a 5 minute charge, which has limited my testing so far. But even under these imperfect conditions it's showing resolution approaching a true 4800 dpi scan. Raw file was converted to TIF using RawTherapee and curves/rotation edits were made in GIMP. This image had a 0.5 degree rotation applied which resulted in a slight loss of detail.
Thanks to Wolfgang Kraus for doing the testing of the Pentax K-1 for film digitization work and publishing it for others to see. You can view his setup here: www.flickr.com/photos/6345-789/49572625458
Thanks also to forum user Shijan, you can view his DIY copy stand solution here: i.imgur.com/oyqjJWt.jpg
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What a spooky, rainy day today; no chance for a cool pic, so you get a selfie.
Captured with my Nikon Df and a Micro Nikkor 60mm ƒ1:2.8 with a gray filter, post processed in Photoshop and Silver Efex Pro2.