[Leica] And to add to your day! :-)

[michael.francis at gs.com (Francis, Michael)]

Yes I tried this with my 20D and the results were surprisingly good -
even better, you get the controls from Adobe RAW for processing the
images, which probably gives you more control than a dedicated scanner
(you can even take two different exposures and compose them in Photoshop
if required.) The best bit is the speed that you can copy slides by this
method. It is well worth experimenting ... 

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+michael.francis=gs.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+michael.francis=gs.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Richard S. Taylor
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 1:11 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] And to add to your day! :-)

Ted -

(snip)

>Today? Hey modern science to the rescue and swiftly. Sun was shining, 
>so out the door, set print into deck chair, digital 20D and Leica 60 
>macro lens in hand, stopped down to f8.0, focus and be there.... click,

>click  KISS and it was done! :-)

I've often though this would be a good way to make digital slide copies,
too, analogous to making them on film.  You'd get lower resolution with
most cameras and less exposure control than with a good slide scanner
but it would be an awful lot faster and might be more than good enough.

Has any one tried to copy slides this way and were you satisfied with
the results?

(snip)


>Yesterday a video crew were at my home shooting a final test segment 
>for a TV programme on BRAVOTV. Yep about the old guy himself. Neat eh? 
>;-) The producers were confident this was an excellent test segment and

>the real time taping will probably be done in the next 6 weeks. :-)

Hope this Bravo is the same as the Bravo channel here.  You'd be an
interesting interviewee for sure.  You must let us know when it's
expected to be broadcast.

(snip)

>Dang it's been a great couple of days! :-)
>
>ted

... and may you have many more.

--
Regards,

Dick

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