So I got off my birthday call through the generosity of my partner the HAMA Slide Duplicator my own.
The piece consists of a lens system (plus protective cover) with 52mm external thread with an adjustable tray for inserting a slide holder for 2 mounted slides (up to 3.5 mm thickness).
Rear (or before?) The shaft is a matt glass for collecting the light and its uniform distribution in the picture.
Fortunately, the 18-55mm kit lens of my Nikon D40 DSLR is factory has an internal thread of 52mm, so that I could use immediately after tightening the Slide Duplicator without additional adapters.
High-format images must also be photographed in landscape mode and then rotate, otherwise parts of the image are missing.
I can moving the lens to the maximum 55mm, so as to have the full range of slides in the image of the camera.
The shaft can be excellent turn by a set screw to the optical axis, resulting in an exact horizontal alignment is ensured.
However, a distorted picture would be easily fine-tune the software.
The slides can be inserted into the holder until it stops; the holder itself then left or right justified (ie no protruding edges) inserted into the slot.
With the camera, the autofocus is activated, the flash off course because the inserted slides are not covered by the flash.
Since this is eh is a static / rigid system probably could not care less and the exposure time.
If the lens rotates through the focus, the shaft must be adjusted again, of course, that then only 1x at the beginning of a series.
First I used the bedside lamp with really bright cold LED light and was very happy, but I have noticed on closer inspection, that the marginal areas a little darker acted as the center of the field, I also a subtle reddish fell into the eye, I first to the Age of Dias (1984) attributed.
After I had then held the shaft against daylight came it then to the long-awaited euphoria ;-): completely uniformly illuminated images in the most beautiful colors and super sharp.
So I have archived in about 2 hours my first series of holidays in Sweden in 1984 further slide boxes will follow .... So I can finally carry around and present all the slides in my netbook.
However, the elderly glass holders I had previously rid of a discreet layer of dust.
Unfortunately I have no comparison to a slide scanner with a transparency unit, but can recommend the duplicator in any case.
In this price range scanner with a transparency unit interesting (EPSON, Canon) are provided with means for simultaneously scanning 4 slides, but I would claim that the photographing of slides with the various possibilities of a DSLR or Bridge Cam is much more fun.
Thus, for example, would be able to compensate blurring due to the flexible nature of the footage through the manual focus conditionally, experiment with the exposure time etc.
In addition, technical defects in duplicator of normal use is virtually impossible and the place of use stinging doses regardless ;-)
