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Subject: [Leica] Interesting article on digitizing film
From: tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley)
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 15:35:07 -0400
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That's what I'm doing.  Saving that technique for the most important images
or those that I have a problem scanning.  I have the 1:1 Elpro on the Macro.


Tina

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Howard L Ritter Jr <hlritter at twc.com>
wrote:

> 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
> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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