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PB-5 Bellows & PS-5 slide adaptor help
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<blockquote data-quote="Fred Kingston_RIP" data-source="post: 659903" data-attributes="member: 10742"><p>The lens attaches to the front of the bellows... the bellows turns the lens into a macro lens...</p><p></p><p>the slide holder in that system (the PS-5) attaches to the underside of the bellows and holds the slide in front of the lens...</p><p></p><p>By adjusting both the bellows and the PS-5, the combination allows you to focus your lens in a 1:1 ratio on the slide... you then set up the whole shebang in front of a white light or pointed at a flash... adjust your exposure, fine tune the focus looking at Live View, and bang... take a digital image of your slide... You now have a RAW image of the slide at the resolution of your camera... </p><p></p><p>The above assumes you don't have a macros lens... </p><p></p><p>There is a less expensive solution that uses sort of the same basic process as the above, but instead of a bellows and the PS-5, you use a macro lens with a Nikon Slide Copying Adapter ES-1... The ES-1 is sort of a tube-in-a-tube that allows you to extend the body, similar to the bellows to achieve focus</p><p></p><p></p><p>The ES-1 system, since it screws onto the front of your macro lens, uses your camera's light meter, whereas the bellows, I believe, does not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fred Kingston_RIP, post: 659903, member: 10742"] The lens attaches to the front of the bellows... the bellows turns the lens into a macro lens... the slide holder in that system (the PS-5) attaches to the underside of the bellows and holds the slide in front of the lens... By adjusting both the bellows and the PS-5, the combination allows you to focus your lens in a 1:1 ratio on the slide... you then set up the whole shebang in front of a white light or pointed at a flash... adjust your exposure, fine tune the focus looking at Live View, and bang... take a digital image of your slide... You now have a RAW image of the slide at the resolution of your camera... The above assumes you don't have a macros lens... There is a less expensive solution that uses sort of the same basic process as the above, but instead of a bellows and the PS-5, you use a macro lens with a Nikon Slide Copying Adapter ES-1... The ES-1 is sort of a tube-in-a-tube that allows you to extend the body, similar to the bellows to achieve focus The ES-1 system, since it screws onto the front of your macro lens, uses your camera's light meter, whereas the bellows, I believe, does not. [/QUOTE]
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