Originally Posted by
LabRat
Are you using just the stand or also using the sliding camera stage??? What size copy areas do you need??? Just camera + stand is easy, mount with macro lens and align by lowering lens + camera to baseboard and look for tilt where front of lens and board meet... Note that without proper universal camera holder, camera may be not centered (or offset), or if stops are built in for the specific camera slide to stand mount...
With sliding camera stage, larger than M mount cameras may not fit stage as camera has to be rotated to remove it from mount, and device might interfere with rotation clearance... Are you planning to focus camera with the stage viewers or light projector, or camera??? Note that some camera mount adapters have some built-in FFD errors where the viewer might have a very slight error that will show up especially using higher magnification/smaller copy areas (like film duping etc)...
I have many of these separate stand components that I got on a macro photography binge a decade ago to cobble different set-ups together and remember there is a little cross-compatibility for "erector set" configurations, but some components are strictly designed to work exclusively with their system design...
Steve K
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