Railphotog
Railroad Photographer
I dug out a thingie I made a few years ago to copy slides with a digital camera this weekend. I had a point and shoot 3.1MP camera at the time, and while it worked, the small size of the resulting files didn't make it worthwhile to use.
I modified it so I could use in with my Canon Digital Rebel XT (8MP), and this is what it looks like:
I'm using my Canon 50mm lens here, and to get in close enough to almost fill the frame with the slides, I had to add close up lenses: a +4, +2, +1 and a +3 diopter ones. I have two series of close up lenses, in 52 and 55mm diameters, so had to use adapters between the last ones. The plastic tube is a thinwall pipe leftover from the installation of our central vacuum system.
I've glued an empty plastic slide mount to the end of the tube, and added some styrene strips to act as guides to hold the slides in place. Little lugs on the sides are used to hold the assembly onto the lenses with rubber bands. The inside of the tube and mount are painted flat black. Funny looking, cheap and it works!
To use, I just point the camera to the circular fluorescent bulb in my desk lamp/magnifyer. I shoot at f/11, and the shutter speeds are relatively slow, but I hand hold it as the subject in the slide isn't moving during the exposure. No color correction was needed in the slides, and the camera is set to auto white balance.
Here's a much reduced image from one of my slides:
I modified it so I could use in with my Canon Digital Rebel XT (8MP), and this is what it looks like:
I'm using my Canon 50mm lens here, and to get in close enough to almost fill the frame with the slides, I had to add close up lenses: a +4, +2, +1 and a +3 diopter ones. I have two series of close up lenses, in 52 and 55mm diameters, so had to use adapters between the last ones. The plastic tube is a thinwall pipe leftover from the installation of our central vacuum system.
I've glued an empty plastic slide mount to the end of the tube, and added some styrene strips to act as guides to hold the slides in place. Little lugs on the sides are used to hold the assembly onto the lenses with rubber bands. The inside of the tube and mount are painted flat black. Funny looking, cheap and it works!
To use, I just point the camera to the circular fluorescent bulb in my desk lamp/magnifyer. I shoot at f/11, and the shutter speeds are relatively slow, but I hand hold it as the subject in the slide isn't moving during the exposure. No color correction was needed in the slides, and the camera is set to auto white balance.
Here's a much reduced image from one of my slides: