I have quite a bunch of slides myself. And I was wondering how the slide scanners stack up against photographing a projected slide. Dark room, high quality screen, camera on a tripod, manual white balance, exposure bracketing. This should give decent results with a good SLR. Unfortunately I don't have my slides accessible right now. Of course a dedicated scanner might offer a more streamlined workflow. Then again with a wire remote there are only two buttons to press per slide, camera and projector advance. The post processing could be pretty much automated (the static subject should make assembly of bracketed exposures trivial. The upside would be a probably much better reproduction of the slides' dynamic range. Any experiences here? Daniel

On 27 July 2011 16:00, Daniel Schwen <lists(a)schwen.de> wrote: With a SLR, there's an even simpler approach for slides - you can get a simple slide duplicator, which is not very much more than a tube with a lens mount at one end and a clip for the slide at the other. Once you get suitably even lighting behind it, you're sorted - slide in, click, next slide, click, next slide, click. The image quality, when I tested this, seemed pretty good. Unfortunately, most of the duplicators on the market date from the film era, and so the focal length is off for a smaller digital sensor - it's going to give you a little crop of the centre of the slide. You could use a full-frame camera, if you have one lying around, or it's possible someone has made shorter APS-sized ones. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk