Having accumulated many 35-mm slides from the film days, I wanted to digitize them. I found that using my flat-bed scanner to do that would be quite onerous. I bought a camera-mounted slide duplicator on Ebay that appears to be identical to this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/166407130746?itmmeta=01HVF9TQN89SRG83MWAAYVRQ28&hash=item26bea34e7a:g:K3AAAOSwrx5lPxX5&itmprp=enc:AQAJAAAAwJsuhbQ6B8AASvwd9nzjKRj+VMshWrnvXGl0HjKrYtDOQL9L7mbs42T5h7G6GWUqLmn5THWfNkX1AaWdBnj35mmonYiNH3IcxB+7/ngvjvMdl7Vw972mxQFHJq1J6avMa53yIk5FHn3juuvaPoD6nxsRmnA8bySsc6T7R8WlpV+NOv/DKOv9UcBEgc6X8AHNcCfcYaZKKtIcleREzkwuKLgyblqIwqjZqRzF1/h0KeeNh4KNhlJFgFoikUTSz8JTHw==|tkp:Bk9SR9r66unbYw
1. The slide duplicator:
It comes with a fixed, low aperture zoom lens (shown in photo above). I removed the lens part, and kept the slide holder with the aim of adapting it to the 30-mm Olympus macro micro-4/3 lens.
2. The setup: EPM2 camera with 30-mm macro lens, slide holder from the slide duplicator all on a table tripod, with the shutter triggered by a remote control. A desk lamp illuminates the slide.
3. The items used to adapt the slide holder to the macro lens.
(Left to right), (A) 46-to-49-mm step up filter adapter goes immediately in front of the lens; (B) 49-mm UV filter with the glass removed and a 2-mm M42 extension tube (I could not separate them: they were too tight), (C) M42 30-mm extension tube. The total extension tube length was chosen to form a reasonably-sized image of the slide in the slide holder.
4. The camera with the items in 3 above assembled.
5. The slide holder, attaches directly to the end of the extension tubes.
Before I had the EPM2 and the macro lens, I used the same duplicator with an E-PL1 camera and a 100-mm M42 Pentax macro lens, adjusting the length of the extension tube accordingly.
I hope I've got all this right.
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