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Subject: [Leica] Interesting article on digitizing film
From: hlritter at twc.com (Howard L Ritter Jr)
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 15:31:07 -0400
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I have the 100 mm Macro-Elmar on the Leica bellows. With the bellows 
extended to the 1:1 reproduction point, the in-focus plane is about 5 inches 
away from the rim of the lens hood?too far for the Nikon slide holder.

It?s either add extension tubes or use a copy rig with the slide on a light 
table.

I think I?ll try taping a slide to my computer screen as a light table and 
copying it 1:1, then comparing that result with a scan of the same slide 
done with the Coolscan 5000LS. It would have to be clearly better to give up 
the convenience of unattended batch scanning of the Coolscan. If it does 
look better, maybe save that technique for the most important images.

?howard


> On Sep 12, 2017, at 10:33 AM, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at 
> icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Sep 11, 2017, at 5:16 PM, Jeff Moore <jbmmllug at jbm.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I have similar questions!  Is it the Nikon ES-1 you've been using, and
>> is there any fiddliness involved to get it to stick on and align
>> properly on the 100mm APO-Macro-Elmarit-R?  Does it position a slide
>> at an appropriate distance from the front of the lens?
>> 
>> The ES-1 is so non-Leica relatively expensive at 60 bucks that it
>> definitely seems worth trying, if it doesn't not-fit in some fatal
>> way.
> 
> Always worth investing in a proper bellows IMO.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser 
> 
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
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> 
> 
> 
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