problems with Coolpix 880 Slide Copier

[reto #35574]

when I copy 35mm slides they usually turn out way too dark and slightly blueish, even though I use either daylight or a special slide-illumiator as background light.

Does anybody have experience iro optimal shutter speed-apertures? And at what pic size and quality do you copy the 35mm slides?--thanks in advance
reto

 

[Eric]

I use an 18% gray card to calibrate the light source, using the color temperature custom setting. The slides look dark because the camera is trying to avoid saturation. Two things to do: use center weighted exposure and try the enhanced gamma correction to get better mid-range exposure.

 

[Peter iNova]

when I copy 35mm slides they usually turn out way too dark and
slightly blueish, even though I use either daylight or a special
slide-illumiator as background light.
Does anybody have experience iro optimal shutter speed-apertures?
And at what pic size and quality do you copy the 35mm slides?
--
thanks in advance
reto

The Nikon's diffuser panel is not as diffuse as the white milk-plastic of the Happenstance slide copier of similar design principle. Any extra diffusion you can add will help. A thin sheet of white milky plex above the built-in diffuser will darken the light source but spread it more evenly.

Then manually white balance off the empty slide copier's white-only image. Now your slides should look fairly well white balanced with only content creating off-color tints.

Slides are relatively high contrast and you may wish to experiment with Contrast Minus plus EV +0.3 or +0.7 boost to shift the gamma point up.

-iNova

 

[Susan35612]

In program mode, set your exposure up two levels (from 0), set your white balance to Auto and be sure to set your lens to the slide copying adapter. I'm using a lightbox as a source of light. I have the camera set to Fine. I've had really good results with the slide copying adapter and my 880. Have fun!

when I copy 35mm slides they usually turn out way too dark and
slightly blueish, even though I use either daylight or a special
slide-illumiator as background light.
Does anybody have experience iro optimal shutter speed-apertures?
And at what pic size and quality do you copy the 35mm slides?
--
thanks in advance
reto