For much less than the price of an 80mm macro one could get a modest
Win98/2000/XP machine that would be dedicated to running that (probably
SCSI) scanner. Just one of thousands of options
<http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=DC5000MT-2R&cat=SYS>
Not that I'd want to see you forego a nice macro lens though. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
andrew elliott wrote:
> I normally use a 4Ti as my everyday camera. Unfortunately work commitments
> has limited me to taking pictures of my kids, wife and cat recently. I would
> hope to have time to use the OM gear more but I have no good way of
> translating 35mm into digital. My old konica minolta dimage scanner will not
> work with vista and I could never seem to get good results from it anyway.
> There was a recent thread on using the zuiko 80mm macro to copy slides with
> a 5D so that might be worth a go. If it works I shall publish a few taken
> with a proper OM body. (And yes, I am an obsessive collector)!!
>
> Andrew
>
> 2009/11/7 Dawid Loubser <dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> Thank you very much Andrew, I enjoyed seeing some sample images.
>> Amazing subject isolation possible with this lens...
>>
>> BTW, your 250mm + OM-3Ti is a beaufiul combination... *drool*
>>
>> Now where are the same images of the 250mm on the OM body?
>> Or are you just a collector? :-)
>>
>> On 07 Nov 2009, at 2:49 PM, andrew elliott wrote:
>>
>>> Someone was wanting a few samples taken with the 250/f2. I have
>>> taken a few
>>> with my 250 on a c*n*n 5d mk1 and these are now on flickr. This is
>>> my first
>>> attempt at using flickr, (as well as first time with 250mm on the
>>> c*n*n), so
>>> please forgive the fuzzy focus. Also please advise on how I should
>>> supply a
>>> link to the photos. My user name on flickr is andrewelliottgalbally
>>> and I
>>> have tagged photos as "Zuiko 250mm f2.0" so maybe that would help!
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>
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