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Honywell Side Copier

Paul Diamond Loc: Atlanta, GA, USA

This was a high quality slide copier of the day. If you have negs or slides (and this works), this is a good solution. Didn't see mention of the light source?

medphotog Loc: Witness protection land

It was a small electronic flash. Duped many a slide on one of these. We took an after hours job duping slides for the dental school ~1980. Charged them .50 a slide and after taking out expenses for film, chemistry, mounts etc. I purchased a reel to reel tape deck (~$450-500).

Jerry G Loc: Waterford, Michigan and Florida

Copied many slides using one of these when I was in the Navy. The camera is a Pentax, Honeywell was the importer of Pentax cameras.

Don, the 2nd son Loc: Crowded Florida

Time to get rid of mine now that i've eaten 83 birthdays cakes!

David in Dallas Loc: Dallas, Texas, USA

I would have eaten that same number, if they had been provided. I go many birthdays without a cake.

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Replacing the film camera with a DSLR is the way to go for this unit. Might be better than scanning. Definitely faster.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

The Bowens Illumitran IIIc is similar. I had one back in the ‘80s.

Some AV geek trivia:

These units with electronic flash should have been used only with Ektachrome SO-366 slide duplication film, and not the standard Ektachrome 5071 slide duplication film. 5071 was optimized for one second to one tenth second exposure, so it suffered reciprocity effects and “color curve crossovers” at electronic flash speeds. As a result, many folks used Kodachrome 25, instead!

SO-366 was special order film, came in 100’ rolls only, and had to be ordered with long lead times. But it was worth it until I blew a deadline. I gave up on it in 1985 and bought a precision setup using an inverted Beseler enlarger color head, vernier controlled X-Y slide compound, and pin-registered Nikon F3. That worked perfectly with 5071.

5071 made muuuch better dupes than Kodachrome 25!

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lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

They had one of those at the museum where I used to work. There is a strobe built into the base. I think we did use some sort of special film (Kodak SO) for it and not regular Kodachrome or Ektachrome. I have found it is easier to use a Digital Camera today with a slide copier accessory or set up with a light box and tripod for using a Digital Camera. Using a light box you can copy 35mm to 8x10" films. Obviously a Scanner could be used instead. It you want to go totally old school the offered unit is an excellent Asahi Pentax product.