Soliciting opinions on scanning slides into digital files (Page 3): I have had excellent results with the macro method. But then, I’ve copied film with a camera since 1980.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

SAVH wrote:

Inl, Thank you. More good input. However it does make it really difficult to sort it all out. It appears the choices are slow but good quality or faster with iffy outcomes.

Scotty

I have had excellent results with the macro method. But then, I’ve copied film with a camera since 1980.

djamkaarat

I bought a Nkon coolscan IV years ago (22 or so) and it's still going strong, just used it a week ago. It will scan mounted slides one at a time, and film strips either four to the strip or in a carrier that will handle six to the strip.
It's a little slow, old USB, and I use the VueScan application, since there is no other OEM application that will work with newer OS's. You can probably pick one up inexpensively (cheap) on ebay from time to time. I'm kinda spoiled by this scanner, since I've scanned slides and negs on an Epson V750 and though the Epson flat bed does a good job, the Nikon is superior. I use the Epson to scan old family heirloom medium format color and B&W negs, and my large format negs and chromes.
What I find interesting is that the negs I scan on the Nikon are sharper than the occasional prints I have to compare them to.
Good luck, hope this helps, you've got one heck of a project ahead of you.

SAVH Loc: La Jolla, CA

djamkaarat, Thank you for the tip.

Scotty

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

SAVH wrote:

burkphoto, Thank you. You are always a fount of information. I'll have to take all this in. It does seem rather complicated but it also seems the results are probably extremely good.

Scotty

Here's a sample. This is about 80% of a frame of Tri-X film I exposed in 1975, using a Nikon FTn and a 55mm f/3.5 Micro Nikkor lens. I copied it with a 16MP Lumix GH4 and a 30mm f/2.8 Lumix Macro lens, and processed it in Negative Lab Pro plug-in for Lightroom Classic.

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delder Loc: Maryland

HELP!
Thank you for your suggestion of the Camera Attached Slide duplicator.

I came across a Rokunar T mount Slide adaptor which I have adapter to my
Nikon D3100 [Crop Frame]

Do you have any general instructions/hints for using this?

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

delder wrote:

HELP!
Thank you for your suggestion of the Camera Attached Slide duplicator.

I came across a Rokunar T mount Slide adaptor which I have adapter to my
Nikon D3100 [Crop Frame]

Do you have any general instructions/hints for using this?

Not really, since I've never seen that device. But when I see "T mount", I know that is a certain older screw mount.

The principles in my white paper are pretty universal. So long as the film is clean, flat, and parallel to the sensor, you block all stray light from the room, the light source is color-accurate, and the camera is vibrationless, etc., all should be well.

Perhaps a Google search might turn up some instructions for using the device you have.

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

burkphoto wrote:

Here's a sample. This is about 80% of a frame of Tri-X film I exposed in 1975, using a Nikon FTn and a 55mm f/3.5 Micro Nikkor lens. I copied it with a 16MP Lumix GH4 and a 30mm f/2.8 Lumix Macro lens, and processed it in Negative Lab Pro plug-in for Lightroom Classic.

Be sure to view this in Download mode.

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