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If I might jump in ...You are taking an image of the original negative?
Do you have a setup for doing this.
Yes, but you are so lost in your blends and bokeh stuff you forgot to show us your set up, when I asked you last year . . . . . :deadhorse::deadhorse:If I might jump in ...
I've been doing this for a good while now - posted on the subject back in the day. I was using a 55 Micro Nikkor on the G1 to reproduce slides stuck on a window with a sheet of photo printing paper as a light source. Then I bought a Nikon bellows and slide copying unit on fleabay for a few pounds and now use the D700 and naturally have extended to my negatives. I've been through all the scanner vs. digicam argument on the wild web and personally I think this is the better of the two (mostly because I can't stretch to the enormous costs of wet scans anyway) and a full-frame RAW 16-bit reproduction is fine for me.
Thank you. This particular negative was made in 1998....You are taking an image of the original negative?
Do you have a setup for doing this. I love the idea of bring back these photos of the past (maybe this wasn't from the past)
Lovely picture ...
GodfreyThank you. This particular negative was made in 1998.
negative capture:
I use the L1 fitted with Olympus ZD 35mm f/3.5 Macro and EC14 teleconverter on a copystand, leveled and squared to a light box. This achieves a 1.4:1 magnification capture of the original Minox negative with a bit of the rebate showing, approximately a 5.5Mpixel image. The amount of rebate is sufficient to do the required lens correction as well (this lens and teleconverter produces a bit of simple barrel distortion, easily corrected in Photoshop).
It's made a set of beautiful presentation prints at 11x17 inches for all my siblings.
Thanks Don!Godfrey, I love that image.....it's just wonderful......
Don
Very nice, Arwyn. Lots of old time feeling and nostalgia there.Arwyn