Slide Copier
This Slide Copier allows a full frame image to be taken of a slide in portrait orientation. It is made from $15 worth of eBay items & machined from 12mm thick Polyethylene sheet & 4mm thick Lexan.
It is specific to the Canon EF 24-70mm 1.4 L IS lens which has a macro mode that allows close focusing. The depth of the copier is designed to have the slide image fill a 'crop sensor' such as the 7D II used here at 70mm macro. Because it is full screen & square with the camera, cropping is only necessary if the silver-fish have been nibbling at the emulsion.
It is specific to the Canon EF 24-70mm 1.4 L IS lens which has a macro mode that allows close focusing. The depth of the copier is designed to have the slide image fill a 'crop sensor' such as the 7D II used here at 70mm macro. Because it is full screen & square with the camera, cropping is only necessary if the silver-fish have been nibbling at the emulsion.
A LED Video Light is aimed at the Lexan diffuser & the camera settings used are AV 400 ISO F4.5. Focus is set once. AV & not M is used because I have some very poorly exposed slides & AV compensates to some extent. A good quality slide photo makes you realise how far photographic technology has come in 45 years since some of these slides were taken. There is too much noise in the slide to see any from the 400 ISO exposure.
The tab at the bottom is the slide lifter/ejector. A 77mm aluminium lens hood that fits the filter thread is the pack-off & a 77mm filter cover end plate is used to mount the slide holder.
The tab at the bottom is the slide lifter/ejector. A 77mm aluminium lens hood that fits the filter thread is the pack-off & a 77mm filter cover end plate is used to mount the slide holder.
