Slide duplicator

[Rob_W]

I've been wanting to get some of my old slides converted to digital for a while now.
I just wanted something that would give reasonable results without going overboard
with expense. I bought a Veho slide/negative scanner quite a while back but was very
disapointed with it. It wasnt very good at all and took forever.

This last week i saw a Tokina Slide Duplicator VD100 on e-bay and i won it for the
mighty sum of £7.40p inc P&P and it arrived yesterday morning. It simply fits onto the
filter ring. Its like shedding peas, i did close on a hundred slides in about an hour
this morning. These are a couple of slides that i took on my old Olympus OM10.

Now all i need to do is figure a way to get a negative carrier in it.

But i think it's brill...

This is what it looks like btw

 

[MisterE]

Coincidentally I've just dug one of these out from the bowels of my old photographic stuff from the 70s and 80s, almost identical to yours. You say yours screws on to a filter thread but mine has a bayonet attachment to the camera body. It has its own built in lens.

I do have something different which screws on to the lens, looks like a filter with a slot in it and a translucent cover. Then there's a whizzy high tech one that I have - has a sliding rail and bellows. Now to find the box of slides. It's got to be easier than this scanning lark.

 

[towershot]

Be a bit carefull with the old Duplicators as they where made to mount on film cameras , don't think they will fit digital ??

 

[Steve Smith]

Be a bit carefull with the old Duplicators as they where made to mount on film cameras , don't think they will fit digital ??

If it's the same lens mount then it will fit.

If you use it with a small sensor camera though, you will get a cropped image.


Steve.