Everthing lines up because the CASTELCOP DIGI rails fit into the holes in the CASTEL focus racks or the Novoflex bellows systems and lock in place when you have the CASTELCOP DIGI at the desired position. The only trick is to put a couple of guide strips where you want the slide centered on the CASTELCOP DIGI. The clips on the CASTELCOP DIGI will hold the slide mount or film in the proper position.
Yes the Gepe Pro boxes will work bu if you are looking at the smaller ones, 4x5 or 5x7 lit area, be aware that the AC adapter is now an accessory and not included with these two units. That changed April 1.
expanding on my previous post my studio has a glass roof which i control with curtains ,
everything i shoot is daylight so it didn,t occur to me to otherwise with this system. So with the light coming from above the white card at 45 degrees is an even light source.
I have copied 35mm 120 6x7 6x9 5x4 and 10x8 negs with this system , shutting down to f8 cuts out any dof issues , using the canon software means i can go to 5X 10X zooms on screen to focus, I have just about recorded my film archive,otherwise i would have made a less heath robinson system. great links Rider and Peter
http://www.flickr.com/photos/voigtf64/
I like your photostream. The 6x6 frost and tree shots are especially mesmerizing.
Without appearing too dense, can I ask two questions:
(1) Do you shield the neg from light coming directly through the glass ceiling, so that all light comes from the back off the card?
(2) I assume you use some kind of rail system to keep everything nice and even?
Btw, that sounds like a nice set-up for a studio!
Rider, thanks for your comments, no light shielding necessary, and the neg holder is securely fixed to a work surface and the camera is on a tripod clamped to the work surface. The most important bit is to have a bellows set up that has the two sets of rails that is front and back focus on the top and everything back and forth on the bottom rails .Also two possible alternatives are a computer screen at a distance behind the neg as a light source with your browser on a blank page and using a tile cutter as a parallel set of rails . http://www.flickr.com/photos/voigtf64/
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