A friend does this very well, with an unusual setup. He purchased an old
process camera from a print shop that had gone to flatbed scanning. He
removed the old film back, and modified the front piece where art was held
under glass to where a piece of art could be held flat. A ff 35 digital with
an old film era 50 macro was fitted to the back standard, and he added
halogen lights. His work is ad close to perfect as possible. Price was
cheap. Process cameras are large cast iron things, very stable and free of
vibration, but hard to move without a truck and some husky guys, so print
shops are usually willing to let them go cheap just to get them out of their
hair. They were built to enable front and back to be perfectly square, so
software adjustments not required. Don't know how many are still in the
wild, though.
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From: Jim Nichols
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2015 11:40 AM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Legacy lens for copy work
Bill,
I'm certainly no expert, but I have done a little of this type of work,
strictly for my own use. I think any lens 50mm or longer will work.
But, more important than the lens is the alignment of the subject matter
and the plane of the sensor, or film, as the case may be. To minimize
distortion, the subject and the sensor must be perfectly parallel, and
the lens should be level with, and centered on, the center of the subject.
I find that small errors in alignment can be corrected in most photo
editing software, but at the expense of slightly distorting the
subject. It is better to get the alignment right when taking the
photograph.
Hope this helps to set you thinking.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 12/20/2015 11:13 AM, Bill Barber via olympus wrote:
I'm will be taking some photos of original art work and am interested in
what others experience has been using OM legacy or perhaps e-thingy lenses
with the least amount of distortion. What I'm trying avoid is having to
crop the images to get them to be straight. Bill Barber
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