Re: digital copying of slides and negatives

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Hi,

The Illumitrans is one option. A few years after the digital photography
revolution started I bought an Agfa 1280 and used it with a Durst color head
as the illuminator to copy slides and negatives. This and a few other
applications and adaptations made for the camera can be seen at:
http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/text-agfa-1280.html

g'day!
andy


Steve Harris wrote:

I also use a Bowens Illumitran for slide and negative copying.
I use a 75 mm enlarger lens and bellows on a Leica Digital R. The Illumitrans on Ebay have a built in bellows, so all you need is an adapter for the camera, and an enlarger lens. After shooting raw, I use curves in Bibble Pro (any raw processor will work) to change the negative image to a positive. (just use an inverted curve.) I just digitized an old box of 5" x 6" negatives from the 1920's. These were too big for the Illumitran, so I used a 5" x 7" contact printer box, and just set up camera with a macro lens over the open box.
Here is an example:
http://www.harrisfoto2.com/cpg1414/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=0 This does go much faster than scanning.


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