P3D Re: Slide Duplication

[Ronald Beck <ronald-beck@xxxxxx>]

> My Fellow Inhabitants of the Third Dimension,
> 
> Do to the rather, ahem, personal nature of my, uh, work, I'd like to start
> copying my 3D Realist slides at home and I have no experience at all in slide
> duplicators or slide duplication.  I am technically inept as well.  Any
> information for the novice would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Jimmy  

Jimmy,
I have recently had some pretty good luck using a slide duplicating tube
that I bought specifically for my Konica FT-1.  You can find these
advertised in the back ad pages of various photo magazines.  They have
tubes that can be mounted in virtually any camera.  

I purchased the duplicating tube that has a zoom adjustment so I can
fill the viewfinder of my camera with the image.  It does cut out some
of the picture though.  Still, if set at 1-1 instead of zooming in, you
can get the whole slide (along with some dark borders when developed.

Since 2x2 slides are bigger than the standard Realist format, I made an
adapter out of balsa wood.  This adapter is as wide as a standard 2x2
slide and twice as long.  I cut out the middle of the wood slightly
narrower than a Realist slide mount.  I then pressed grooves into the
upper and lower part so the Realist slide would fit snugly and not
move.  The thing looks like this...


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When a Realist slide was slid in, the slide was perfectly centered. 
Then I could zoom in and crop the image as much as I wanted.

I'm still looking for a good way to do this with a scanner.  Of course,
the first thing I need is a scanner!

HTH,
Ron


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