Thanks, Dan - both of your suggestons look very helpful. I tried a software download, but the Pentax site says to click the download button, the which I cannot for the life of me find!
Martyn

I use a digital camera a lot for pix on my website. I recently acquired a Pentax 1st D SLR with a view to using it on a device called an Illumitrans. This involves removing the lens and fitting a bellows with a lens at the other end, and mounting this on vertical slides. This sits above a platform where the film is placed. This is to make highest possible quality enlargements from various sizes of cine film (8, 9.5, 16, 17.5, 28mm).

I suppose i was naive, but I assumed that, like my cheap nasty old digital, I would be able to frame and focus the image on the LCD screen.
But I can't. There seems to be no way of framing shots this way; the viewfinder must be used, which is not possible when the camera is mounted as above. When the camera is connected to my PC, the little screen on top just says PC and the camera will not operate.

As an alternative, I have tried a device called a Veho, which is a mini all-in-one way of doing the same job. Trouble is, quality is not as good as |I would like and I have had to mutilate the thing to avoid having to cut frames out of the film to get them in, which is a total no-no.

Can anyone offer any help?

Martyn Stevens