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Jan 14, 2019 13:46:20 #
amfoto1 wrote:
That's funny! I've got an old Bowens Illumitrans stored away somewhere too. I used it in the past with DSLR and a macro lens (used it with film before that), rather than an enlarger head.
The enlarger head was a separate system that sort of superseded the Illumitran. I used the bellows and a Bogen 60mm wide angle enlarger lens from the Illumitran on my F3, mounted on a copy stand with the color head and slide compound.
All of that was for slide duplication and composition. Multi-image required a lot of precise camera moves, multiple exposures (I had (still have) a pin-registered Nikon F3), overlays, overburns, Kodalith masks...
All of that is so much faster and easier to do digitally!
The illumitran works great with digital cameras to copy slides and negatives. Like Architect says, above, you do have issues with color correction and cleaning dust off of images. I use the following to prepare my film for copying:
Dust-Off (canned air)
Staticmaster camel's hair brush with fresh Polonium strip
Ilford Antistaticum Cloths
Photosol PEC-12 Photo Emulsion Cleaner
Rocket Blower bulb
I'd rather clean film than spot images in Photoshop or Lightroom.
If you use a scanner with Digital ICE, be aware that it does not work with Kodachrome to remove dust from the emulsion. You can reverse the slide, and let ICE remove dust from the base, though. Flop the image in post...
Jan 14, 2019 14:29:39 #
burkphoto wrote:
Save your coins and get an Epson V600 or V850.
I also have a V600 and agree with Burkphoto.
Jan 14, 2019 14:33:23 #
amfoto1 wrote:
That's funny! I've got an old Bowens Illumitrans s... (show quote)
And how much time and effort in photoshop went into these?
Jan 14, 2019 16:38:30 #
pminyard
Loc: Bartlett, Tennessee
The Epson V850 would probably the best choice of a scanner for you. And, it comes more templates than you will ever use. An excellent piece of scanner software is "SilverFast". I use their Studio 8 and recommend it.
Jan 14, 2019 18:38:45 #
I have an EPSON V600 and it's a great machine although it has a very minor "sleep mode: glitch and you will know what I mean once you get this unit. Other than that, it does a GREAT job on 35mm & 120mm films in both colors as well as black and whites.
Jan 14, 2019 19:24:23 #
pminyard wrote:
The Epson V850 would probably the best choice of a scanner for you. And, it comes more templates than you will ever use. An excellent piece of scanner software is "SilverFast". I use their Studio 8 and recommend it.
It also does slides or negatives up to 8x10.
Jan 14, 2019 20:09:29 #
burkphoto wrote:
Save your coins and get an Epson V600 or V850.
Jan 14, 2019 20:59:46 #
Hey Carl, I've just completed scanning 3,800 slides with no problems and I highly recommend it. It's simple, very fast and most easy to use.
Charlie
Charlie
Jan 14, 2019 22:44:22 #
amfoto1 wrote:
There also were older Nikon and Minolta scanners that were quite good. I still use a nearly 20 year old Nikon 4000ED, which is far better than those Kodak scanners.
I have an old Minolta Dimage film scanner which I bought on Ebay. It can run today on the Windows 10 OS with VuScan (the original software is incompatible), and still gives excellent results. But it takes forever to scan the five or so slides or negatives the cassette holds. So it's not really practical for a big production run.
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