I use the unit together with the Panasonic Lumix FZ17 and am quite happy after two test sessions. In combination with the necessary attachments (tube, Adapterrring) has a solid technical solution to convert its ancient treasures in a modern format. Two criticisms (hence only 4 stars) I have noted: - A number of commercially available slides only fit very tightly into the holder. On the other hand the springs that hold the mechanical attachment in the correct position, not too tightly, it can easily happen that the slides are not sitting in the optimal position relative to the height and some fine tuning is necessary to patient. I have the camera mounted on a tripod and supported the front end of the whole structure to a pile of books - so you can work quite well. It would be easier, however, if the manufacturer of the slide would have been approximately 0.2 mm more space and it had a tighter height adjustment of Diahaltersangebracht. - If you zoom the camera so that exactly the whole slide is displayed, then the corners are shaded a little. This can of course also the special combination camera - be owed duplicator. This can be resolved only a slightly shorter focal length and then cut out the actual electronic slides. For illumination of course is (as one of the Rezesenten already remarked) Daylight best suited. Since the process but rather is a job for long winter evenings, you can not avoid artificial light. Then it is extremely useful to store the images in RAW format (even if you need to quite a lot of memory) to correct the color temperature and afterwards. The Silkypix program (supplied with the camera) goes to fairly decent, but surely there is in the commercial area even better. If you plan the images mainly on the monitor / TV to look at, it's also wise to a second variant with a correspondingly down-calculated, physically sensible, save number of pixels (eg 1080 lines for full HD resolution). One warning I have: The whole procedure (but for what the unit can not) is quite time-consuming. So if you do not really lovers, is the whole can not abgewinnen great taste and should take into consideration to create the slides for photo shop. For the price of construction do you get quite a few slides copied.
