12-10-2010, 08:59 PM
Using a duplicator is what I do right now to get my roughly
6000 slides digitized. It requires a certain amount of time,
an you shoulnd't compare the output with that of a dedicated
slidescanner, however, the method is quite cheap (I payed
15euros for my duplicator ... including a T2-EF adapter...
I bought mine 2nd hand from ebay) and also, the results
are good enough to print A4 (or even A3) if you spend some
more work in postprocessing on the images. Right now,
I can get around 100 slides scanned in 60 minutes. This time
also includes the raw-conversion of the images.
The drawback is, you can only use this on a fullframe dSLR ...
because the duplicator is constructed as a dedicated macro lens
with a magnification between 1:1 and 2:1 ... for a crop camera it
should start at 1:2, and I haven't yet seen such a duplicator.
Just my 2cts ... Rainer
6000 slides digitized. It requires a certain amount of time,
an you shoulnd't compare the output with that of a dedicated
slidescanner, however, the method is quite cheap (I payed
15euros for my duplicator ... including a T2-EF adapter...
I bought mine 2nd hand from ebay) and also, the results
are good enough to print A4 (or even A3) if you spend some
more work in postprocessing on the images. Right now,
I can get around 100 slides scanned in 60 minutes. This time
also includes the raw-conversion of the images.
The drawback is, you can only use this on a fullframe dSLR ...
because the duplicator is constructed as a dedicated macro lens
with a magnification between 1:1 and 2:1 ... for a crop camera it
should start at 1:2, and I haven't yet seen such a duplicator.
Just my 2cts ... Rainer