Nikon film digitizing adaptor: I have a Nikon D850 and many slides and negatives. Nikon sells an ES-1 and an ES-2 adaptor. I have an older Nikon AF Micro Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 lens. This...

JimKing Loc: Salisbury, Maryland USA

I have a Nikon D850 and many slides and negatives. Nikon sells an ES-1 and an ES-2 adaptor. I have an older Nikon AF Micro Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 lens. This lens is, of course, capable of copying a slide or negative and the ES adaptors are merely designed to hold the slide or negative in the correct place. I'm told that neither will work with my lens. One video I watched showed the ES-2 being adjusted using it's sliding tube. Does anyone know why this won't work with my lens?

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

No idea, but I duplicated my old slides with an old Spiratone slide duplicator from my film days... That said, I also have an Epson scanner that will duplicate them as well. Both options are a lot cheaper...

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

I ordered the ES-2 and finally received it. Also bought the 60mm f2.8 Micro lens. My impression of the problem is that the ES-2 (which provides a couple of setup options) will not extend far enough to allow full frame coverage of a 24x36mm image and proper focus when used with the 105mm lens, although I've not tried it yet. It does have the same 62mm filter ring dimension, so that's not the problem.

My disappointment is the same as yours, because the 105 is a Gold Ring lens, and I was hoping to be able to use it for my digitizing.

Dik

A cheap set of step-up and step down filter adapters should let you cobble together enough extension to position the ES-2 at the correct distance for the 105mm.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Screamin Scott wrote:

No idea, but I duplicated my old slides with an old Spiratone slide duplicator from my film days... That said, I also have an Epson scanner that will duplicate them as well. Both options are a lot cheaper...

Spiratone! That brings back memories. I remember their full-page ads in photo mags of the 1960s.

cameraf4 Loc: Delaware

I use the ES-2 on my D850 with my 60mm Micro. Absolutely perfect system. The 60mm is one of the sharpest lenses Nikon has ever made and my results (so far, have a whole lot of slides to go) have been outstanding. [see: https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-534400-1.html].
The 105mm is a beautiful lens, but it simply will not focus close enough to use the ES-2 without some kind of "jury-rig."

Dik

I have found online, cheap metal screw-in lens hoods with filter threads front and rear. They come in wide, normal, and tele depths and sizes up to at least 77mm. Combined with sets of step-up & step down rings, you can configure any amount of non vignetting extension to mount the ES-2 on any macro lens.

BTW, I don't like the amount of wiggle in the sliding portion of the ES-2 any worry that it might be as parallel as desired for high resolution work.
Anybody know the diffraction limited f/stop and depth of field for the Nikon 105 on a D850? And will that cover the film curvature in a cardboard mounted slide?
Or would a two or three shot focus stack be better for critical reproduction (short of unmounting the slide)

brent46 Loc: Grand Island, NY

This works great for me. Nikkor 28-105 D in Macro mode with daylight led bulb. It is fast and the quality is excellent.

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JimKing Loc: Salisbury, Maryland USA

Dik wrote:

A cheap set of step-up and step down filter adapters should let you cobble together enough extension to position the ES-2 at the correct distance for the 105mm.

Hey, thanks. This could be a solution. Has anyone tried this?

JimKing Loc: Salisbury, Maryland USA

brent46 wrote:

This works great for me. Nikkor 28-105 D in Macro mode with daylight led bulb. It is fast and the quality is excellent.

I can do simple woodworking, so this could be a "don't buy anything" solution.

bpulv Loc: Buena Park, CA

JimKing wrote:

I have a Nikon D850 and many slides and negatives. Nikon sells an ES-1 and an ES-2 adaptor. I have an older Nikon AF Micro Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 lens. This lens is, of course, capable of copying a slide or negative and the ES adaptors are merely designed to hold the slide or negative in the correct place. I'm told that neither will work with my lens. One video I watched showed the ES-2 being adjusted using it's sliding tube. Does anyone know why this won't work with my lens?

I have the same question, but I have a D800 and an old 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 D macro lens. Will a Nikon ES-1, ES-2 or another brand of slide adapter work with that combination?

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

Dik wrote:

BTW, I don't like the amount of wiggle in the sliding portion of the ES-2 any worry that it might be as parallel as desired for high resolution work.
Anybody know the diffraction limited f/stop and depth of field for the Nikon 105 on a D850? And will that cover the film curvature in a cardboard mounted slide?
Or would a two or three shot focus stack be better for critical reproduction (short of unmounting the slide)

If there is any slop at all, I would not even think of using it. I always had my slide film processed only if I sent it out, and mounted them myself in anti-Newton ring glass mounts. There can be some variation among different depth-of-field tables, but the Leica table I use says for 1:1 it’s 0.79mm @ f/5.6, 1.09mm @ f/8.0 and 1.50mm @ f/11.0.

bpulv Loc: Buena Park, CA

brent46 wrote:

This works great for me. Nikkor 28-105 D in Macro mode with daylight led bulb. It is fast and the quality is excellent.

I like your solution, but I am not handy with woodworking and I do not have the tools. I have the same lens as you (see my other post in this thread) and need an off the shelf commercially available solution. I hope someone can help.

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

As I said before, you can't do it any cheaper than using an old slide duplicator on a full frame camera. That's what they were made for and they can be had for cheap. I have also used an x-ray lightbox for the illumination and let the camera determine the exposure...You can do negatives as well but software is required to convert them...I'm attaching a few unedited dups from the 1970's

DSC_0105 by Scott, on Flickr

Pretty girl by Scott, on Flickr

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I used a lot of their photographic paper. I also have a Spiratone 400mm lens. It serves well as a paperweight. The late 60s were fun.
--Bob

jerryc41 wrote:

Spiratone! That brings back memories. I remember their full-page ads in photo mags of the 1960s.