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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · Digitalizing slides with Canon mirrorless and Nikon ES-2 | |
rscheffler wrote:
How do you find the image quality from the RF35 for this application? Is it sharp across the frame?
I also bought an ES-2 with the intention to use an EOS-M series camera with the EF-M 35 macro, but that lens was discontinued in favor of the 28, it seemed, and is hard to find. I tried the 28 and it was too wide angle, leaving too much 'dead' space around the slide/negative. I also found that the wide angle of view, combined with the thickness of the filmstrip holder, meant that the plastic frame behind the plane of focus was seen by the lens and ended up cropping into the image area more than I would like. It would seem the solution would be either a longer lens or to enlarge the film strip openings to show some rebate area around the image.
I've since picked up an R6II and am contemplating lens options. Could go with an adapted Nikon 55 or 60 macro. There are also some lower priced macros from the new Chinese lens companies... I otherwise don't do macro work regularly and am not really interested in getting a Canon 100 macro.
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action99 wrote:
I'm also not interested in macro and not even sure the Canon 100 would be a good fit for this, the ES-2 is made for shorter lenses and has a 52mm thread so with step down it will vignette and you need a way to extend the ES-2 for that lens.
The Canon RF 35 1.8 is not really a macro lens (1:2) thus the need of the tubes with the tubes it makes it a 1-1 macro thus filling the frame.. At 4 and 5.6 the RF 35 1.8 is very sharp across the frame. I did not see any issue with my borders but in my case most of my slides are from a Minolta 700si with a 35-105 kit lens so the borders are already not great to begin with.
Even compared to the RF 100 macro the RF 35 does not so bad: https://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/ISO-12233-Sample-Crops.aspx?Lens=1224&Camera=1508&Sample=0&FLI=0&API=4&LensComp=1554&CameraComp=1508&SampleComp=0&FLIComp=0&APIComp=3 I honestly doubt that you will see any difference on a slide.
You also want to have an AF lens as there a bit of wiggling room on the ES-2 slide holder so manual AF is slow and the very thin DOF makes it harder.
As you already own the ES-2, you could just pick up a used RF 35 1.8, buy the tubes 38$ and then if you are not happy resell the RF 35 1.8. But I doubt you will not be happy with it.
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Thanks, this is definitely something to think about. WRT to image quality: my preference is for the film grain to be correctly focused across the image area, whether or not the original taking lens was of good quality. At least that way the 'scan' will be as faithful of the original as I can make it and minimize introducing much in the way of additional 'generational' changes. I have a lot of B&W negatives shot on high ISO film stock, such as Kodak TMZ 3200. Uneven grain sharpness would be quite obvious and annoying, for me.
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