Nikon FHW00301 ES-1 Slide Copying Adapter , Black

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p>My light source is natural daylight and I use auto white balance. Almost all of the old slides I'm copying are faded -- especially the Ektachromes. (Kodachrome is more stable.) The camera's AWB helps to correct the slide's skewed color balance. If necessary, I do further corrections in Photoshop.

p>>>Another fail! This combination still does not allow the 40mm lens to photograph a whole slide. The top is still cropped off.

p>The photos I posted before showing my dupe rig illustrate how one can turn a marginally effective "tube" into an effective one by stripping it of most of its stuff. The bare flanged tube allows me to connect my 55/2.8 Micro-Nikkor and a slide stage, with a few other pieces that are necessary to bring things to 1:1 for a 1.5x APS-C setup.

p>The problem is that the 40mm/ES-1 combination doesn't allow the slide to be centered in the viewfinder. There is a significant amount of slide mount at the bottom and a significant amount of cropped image at the top. Yet the slide cannot be pushed down any further into the ES-1's holder. The metal clips prevent it. Trying to force the slide further into the holder only breaks the slide.

p>This rig produces images that are just a tiny bit larger than full frame with a 1.5x crop sensor camera, such as Nikon or Sony NEX. If you have a 1.6x crop body camera, such as a Canon, I have a setup that works for it as well.

p>But the DX sensor is smaller than the slide, and at 1:1, could only copy a smaller area of it. So the slide must be mounted farther out, less than 1:1, and so to do that, the ES-1 on a DX body needs some extension, in FRONT of the lens (Not behind it). My 55mm macro on ES-1 is much better with about 10mm extension on DX, and my 60mm macro needs about 20 mm on DX... extension between the ES-1 and the lens. This allows some adjustment with the telescoping range of the ES-1. The ES-1 threads are 52mm filter threads, so an extension with 52mm threads is needed.... in front of the lens.

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p>A 60 mm lens will focus 1:1, but the working distance (lens to slide) is longer than the ES-1 will accommodate without a short extension tube, The K5 would work perfectly.

greatly enhanced texturing functionality including guaranteed support for floating point textures, 3D textures, depth textures, vertex textures, NPOT textures, R/RG textures, immutable textures, 2D array textures, swizzles, LOD and mip level clamps, seamless cube maps and sampler objects;p>This rig is MUCH faster than using my Nikon Coolscan film scanner UNLESS the slide is scratched and dirty. Then the scanner is faster, because Digital ICE fixes most of the defects that are time consuming to fix in Photoshop.

high quality ETC2 / EAC texture compression as a standard feature, eliminating the need for a different set of textures for each platform; p>You would need to use less than 1:1 magnification with an APS-C camera, which will increase the working distance. Again, a K5 filter-ring extension would probably suffice.

p>At the heart of my rig is an old pre-AI 55mm f/3.5 Micro Nikkor. Everything else, including the TC-14, are necessary to get the image to the right size. I'm not saying this is the only way to do it, just the way I do it, a way that works.

p>Dust is everywhere, and the amount which accumulates on a slide may depend more on the time it is exposed to the environment after cleaning than the effectiveness of the cleaning itself.

p>>Not only the cheap ones, but the fancier devices made by Nikon and others, I'm bound to say.

p>My NEX 7's resolution is high enough where it resolves even Kodachrome at the grain level, so I feel pretty confident that I'm managing to eke out just about everything a slide has to offer. So I don't feel I'm losing anything resolution wise. Now, I dunno about the Coolscans, but my Epson flatbed's resolution becomes noticeably worse whenever I engage its ICE function, which is why I never use it. So is a Coolscan giving up resolving power when ICE is used? If so, then my NEX is doing a better job than the Coolscan. Actually, it is already, since its resolution is actually better than a Coolscan's.

p>I wouldn't mind owning a Nikon Coolscan, but there's no way I can afford one. But I could afford a NEX 7, so I use what I have and I make the best of it that I can. Oh, and duping B&W is easy. Duping C-41 is admittedly more fiddly, but really not all that difficult. And yes, I have a special roll film stage for negatives, as well as unmounted slides.

p>Shooting RAW instead of JPEG would not improve the results. RAW is great when a scene's dynamic range exceeds the camera's JPEG capabilities. But these slides -- especially old, faded ones -- have low dynamic range. And adjusting exposure to maximize the histogram is easy. The principles that apply to field photography don't necessarily apply to slide copying.

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