Copying mounted chrome slides with the Nikon ES-1 holder

bosjohn21 wrote:

i did this with my nikon d610 and the sixty mm macro also nikon. worked fine, gives a twenty four meg file, if you want a much higer quality scan you get in much closer and take four or six shots and stitch them now yuo have a huge file and quality as good a some ot of the best

i used to have a nikon cool scan but it was tedious and slow,

there are some attachments for duping slides from the good old days that would work but i went with copy stand and an assortment of negative and slide holders desighned for the omega b22 which coveres all but a few negs I have bigger than 6x6. the most important thing i discovered is my ipad makes an ideal light sourse you just get on line and search for a pure white screen. the the pad is dead even across it surface so you could scan four by five easiy just laying them on the pad as it not hot,

a few years back i posted a bung of pics of the set up,

If it works for you, John great.

I tried a vertical arrangement with a light box. And then horizontal methods which turned out mor easy to manage ( I hate standing on stools) And a bellows with a slide copier attachment ( a Canon Auto Bellows) and then a stack of wooden laminate sheets and a plastic slide holder I jiggered...and durn it I had to keep light off the thing. Or shoot in the dark. The beauty of the ES-1 and ES-2 is it has tubes that keep all light out.  I have an iPAd and I bet that is a definite idea...the LED costs some, not much, but lo and behold it has lumens controls and some color control which is handy.   And moving it closer can also make your f Stop really large for the purpose of focus....steadiness is eliminated whan the whole deal is a single unit as the one I show above.

That alone is worth the price of the Nikon kits... I got the idea or stole it from Wrotniak the gent who has a micro four thirds blog. He has not posted for months and has not elaborated . Actually I found that it is best to add at least one more tube attachment to get the full slide in the micro four thirds size sensor....if one has a full frame camera of course that is what the rig was designed for....Big praise for this method of slide duping from me.