I have an Imacon scanner and it does an amazing job of scanning slides. The 24-70 lens is not designed for copy work, you really need a 1-1 macro lens for this. You also will need a translucent piece of opaque white plastic to mount the slides on and you will also need a good tripod to mount the camera on because your focusing is very critical. The light source illuminating the slide will influence color with daylight being the best. Even with extension tubes the 24-70 lens will not be a good choice for this.

I've copied 35mm, 120 film (6x6cm & 6x7cm), and 4x5" negatives and transparencies with a APS-C camera. I use a tripod with a 90-degree side arm, and a color balanced light-box. Various light boxes are sold for slide sorting and tracing and other art activities. I'll use a 35mm or 50mm Macro prime lens. It works pretty well with Black & White films or Color Reversal (Slide) films, but not so well with Color Negative films. I also have to do a bit of PP with Ps CS6 to get positives and what I want. The problem with Color Negatives is likely three-fold. They have a red-orange mask, negative (usually printed with two color filters, not all three), again requiring a Reverse; the film is old and probably color shifted and/or faded from age; and the white balance is off when copied. Most of these issues are in the processing or software though. Because when I copy such Color Negatives with my Epson V500 Scanner or other scanners owned by others, I get a fairly nice positive image right out of the scanner. And I usually can adjust that fine with Photoshop if needed.

Surprisingly I often get better results from copying a print (when I don't have a negative or can't find it).

I've tried using a optical Slide Copier with a CF camera. I agree it would work MUCH better with a FF camera. I have a slide copier rig with one of my Bellows but the focal and working lengths are never right with any of my (20+) lenses. I found I can rig it up using de-glassed filters as spacers. But it is so much trouble that it is better to use the scanner now that I have one. The Bellows / Slide Copier gadget is a Pentax one made for film Pentax cameras, 24x36mm format not APS-C FC sensors. So it might very well work better with a FF DSLR camera (if Pentax made one).

Your Nikon Nikon D800e with its massively HIGH resolution will show the limitations of any technique you use to copy images. And you've probably heard this before, use a good prime lens for close-up work. For that camera, a Nikkor 55mm or 105mm Micro.

Its a little tricky depending on how you do it, there are what they call slide duplicators which actually may be quite good with a full frame camera. With a aps-c you get the middle of the frame.

Black & White and Slide are fairly easy to do well color negatives, so hard to get a good white balance. I messed around a lot and in the end a dedicated machine produced a fair result. It was smart enough to be able to produce positives all on its own. Still a long and tedious job, i did around 600 in a couple of days.

Set aside the best for post processing, maybe cleaning. The memories are there even if they were not the best photographs ever taken.

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How did this happen ? Unbelievable statements - total egomaniac !!!

Remember when we were told to watch Fox News on a Sunday
night that was going to air something about Obama and we
watched but never saw anything! Well, read below and click
on the video to see why it got pulled before it could air.

Now we know why Fox News never broadcast it as they had
originally planned to. This piece was pulled.

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*Remember all the notices we kept getting to watch Fox News
on Sunday at 9PM? What Happened?*

*This is the clip that got pulled due to pressure from the
Administration.*

Obama Puts Heat on Fox News to Prevent Sean Hannity from
airing this piece.

*This is a video that Sean Hannity of FOX News has been
trying to show that we are told has consistently been blocked by the Obama
Administration for several weeks. It was a matter of time until the internet picked it up.*

*Watch it now before it gets pulled from the internet!*




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