Re: paleonet Digital cameras and Aristophot

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Aristophot is a large format. Aristophot has a huge bellows and a stable vertical stand. You should "hang" the digital camera (reflex, without lens) somehow in the top in substitution of the film-box of Aristophot.This needs a lot of bricolage (do-it-yourself). The problem is that doing that for 35mm (or equivalent in digital) you are cropping a lot the image and getting huge magnifications. For such magnification is better to use a (stereo-) microscope than the Aristophot.

Alternatively you can use the lens and a bellow. I bought some leitz photar lens as well as a minolta bellows in a second hand shop in London (in "Jessops classics", near British Museum but you have some of then near in the area). I use canon systems, then I made some bricolage preparing adaptors from one system to the other. I am getting 15:1!!! 


I made also a macrophoto bench using an old stand from a second-hand broken microscope. With those magnifications you must synchronize the vibrations of the camera with the object to be photographed. Fixing camera and object in the same rigid structure (the bench) avoid unwanted vibrations. Moreover, the bench improve to place the very narrow depth of field in the correct position.

You can search for macrophotography books by Paul Harcourt Davies, Gilles Martin or John Shaw. I take a lot of macrophoto ideas from them.

Patricio Domínguez


----- Mensaje original -----
De: Tony Wright <awright@uow.edu.au>
Fecha: Jueves, Marzo 2, 2006 2:04 am
Asunto: paleonet Digital cameras and Aristophot

> On the subject of digital photography, has anyone hooked up a 
> digital 
> camera to an Aristophot?
> 
> Tony Wright
> 
>