Nikon film digitizing adaptor (Page 2): Scott, is there any particular brands of older slide duplicators I should look for on Ebay?

bpulv Loc: Buena Park, CA

Screamin Scott wrote:

As I said before, you can't do it any cheaper than... (show quote)

Scott, is there any particular brands of older slide duplicators I should look for on Ebay?

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

I have an old Spiratone in Nikon F mount...What to get depends on the mount of the camera used...

bpulv wrote:

Scott, is there any particular brands of older slide duplicators I should look for on Ebay?

Dik

RWR wrote:

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.

Thanks for the spec. I just measured the wiggle in my Nikon ES-2. Holding the device as it would be mounted on a lens, I pushed gently down to take out the play. The top v.s bottom length differs by a half a millimeter fully collapsed and about 2/3 of a millimeter when fully extended. I would only use this device if mounted vertically, to maintain parallelism.

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

Dik wrote:

Thanks for the spec. I just measured the wiggle in my Nikon ES-2. Holding the device as it would be mounted on a lens, I pushed gently down to take out the play. The top v.s bottom length differs by a half a millimeter fully collapsed and about 2/3 of a millimeter when fully extended. I would only use this device if mounted vertically, to maintain parallelism.

I wonder if that’s typical, or if you just got a defective unit? Doesn’t sound like the Nikon quality I’m used to.

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

bpulv wrote:

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.

I prefer the versatility of a focusing rail and slide holder over the units that attach to the lens. Not cheap, but exceedingly smooth, precise and durable.
I use this rail, only an older unit without the quick release plate:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/379019-REG/Novoflex_CASTEL_Q_Castel_Q_Focusing_Rack.html
with this slide holder (I also duplicate a lot of 6 x 7 slides:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/394672-REG/Novoflex_CASTELCOP_DIGI_Castel_Digital_Slide_Copying.html

Bob Werre

Some of the Spiratone stuff was junk while other items were golden. I bought on of the 2X tele converters that was okay, a bellows and Macro lens that were great. A college professor bought a Russian made 500mm mirror lenses that was superior for it's time. I always wanted some of those $12 strobe lights until I found out they were AC only!

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

Not only AC only, but with extremely high trigger voltages...I'd have to agree that some of their stuff was/is junk and others gems.... Depends on who made the item for them...

Bob Werre wrote:

Some of the Spiratone stuff was junk while other items were golden. I bought on of the 2X tele converters that was okay, a bellows and Macro lens that were great. A college professor bought a Russian made 500mm mirror lenses that was superior for it's time. I always wanted some of those $12 strobe lights until I found out they were AC only!

daeod Loc: Levittown, PA

In addition, i use one of these on my D90 and needed to use the 40mm micro lens. On the crop camera, the 60mm cuts off part of the slide, the 40mm fills it perfectly.

decoonass Loc: San Antonio

Just to toss this in, an app to convert negative to positive, and its free.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/gallery-program/convert-negative-photograph-image-to-positive/0f6a798e-d825-44d0-b1a2-15034f8071d7

JimKing Loc: Salisbury, Maryland USA

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...

My Epson scanner will do the job but it's very slow.