The Kaiser Fototechnik Digital Slide Duplicator is suitable for digital SLRs and digital compacts with a front lens thread. This Digital Slide Duplicator attaches to the filter thread of the lens with the help of a 52mm connecting thread.
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Kaiser 206506 Reviews
More details after almost a year of use
800 slides later, I've started using F/16 to have a bit more of liberty focusing. The old D7000 has a far from perfect live tether in lightroom, so it's hard to see if it's in focus, and on paper slides, there's a bit of room for the picture to jiggle. With F/16 I get enough depth of field to avoid focusing for each picture, I just capture 3 of the first one to get it just right and then run through a magazine. Plastic framed slides fit fine. Slowly getting the hang of bringing out Kodachrome 64 colors from the 70s in Lightroom. If I'd give myself a Nikon D780 full frame for the holidays, I don't think I'll have the stamina to start from the beginning - and I also believe I'd need the Nikon ES-2 to take full advantage of the larger sensor.
Big Difference Between Full Frame vs APS-C
For full frame, I tried a 100mm macro, a 24-105 and a 100-400. With the macro I could not get the lens to focus with either one or two adapter rings. All three lenses required the close up adapter which resulted in images so out of focus toward the edges that the result was horrific. With my little Canon M50 (APS-C sensor) and the 55-200mm lens the close up adapter was required but for some reason the images were pretty good. I used a fairly bright LED work light to get the iso down to an acceptable level. Maybe with practice the slide loading goes okay but initially I found the alignment to be quite tedious. To recap, I could not get anything usable with full frame gear but the APS-C worked pretty well. I'd like to figure out how to avoid using the close up adapter as I suspect one would achieve better results.
