RE: Digital slide camera, was Re: off-topic digital camera suggestions

Scanning slides is a pain - I have ruled that out as a possible
alternative - we have a slide suplication setup that you slot the slide
into, set up the camera above it and couple it up to the timer, exposes
the whole thing for you - it's a vintage machine and I'll check it out
when I get into school today as to name etc, but there must be some way
of coupling a DSLR onto one of these, would definitely take the yawn
factor out of copying slide onto digi. Thanks for the idea!!!
Kate

-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Wang [mailto:stwang@mail.nctv.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 14 December 2004 3:38 a.m.
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: RE: Digital slide camera, was Re: off-topic digital camera
suggestions

Kate,

Good shots from prints are relatively easy, as long as you have a good
lens like your Nikon Macro 55, a classic. I find the 50mm Canon Macro to
work well also.

So far, however, the Olympus E series DSLRs seem to be the only ones
using beam splitters instead of mirrors. So they are the only ones that
allow previewing on an LCD (or TV), with comfort, without having to bend
up and down all day photographing from many different size books and
prints.

On reproduction of present slides, I'm wondering about shooting them
over a light table with a DSLR and a good macro lens. If the results
could be well enough, it certainly would be a whole lot faster than
scanning the slides individually. Any thoughts on this?

Sam

>I have been using a Fuji finepix slr for copy work recently, with a
>Nikon 55mlmacro lens of considerable vintage, and am not having any
>trouble getting good clean shots with no distortion. I'm starting
>research on converting all my school's slide production to digital so
>if anybody wants the information, or has any to share, please let me
>know.
>
>Kate

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