Well I had to at least try

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Thought I would see what I could do with nearly 60 year old colour slides of photos I took back then. Had a look to see about buying a gadget the goes on the end of a lens, but didn't have one the right lens mm size

So what about making my own then, more as a laugh than a serious efforts.
How to hold the slide was the first problem, then I hit on the idea of using a clothes peg . Yep that held but what to hold the clothes peg with?( blunted the ends off so they were flat)

Idea use a plastic pipe clip another problem solved, just needed to nail it to a block of wood. Solved.

So below is the setup

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from left to right
white sheet of A4 paper as a light reflector from a CN-160 led light

Then further back the rig I made up holding the 35mm slide photo and frame
Next the camcorder on a tripod with the small screen facing sideways so i could check for focus etc

So as not to disturb used the wireless remote trigger/receiver to take the shot
and finally the edited result on the computer monitor

What a waste of time the photos were too far gone to do anything with
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I've scanned some of my old slides and the difference in quality between the images is amazing. That's true even between slides taken the same day on the same roll of film; some scan really well and some are terrible and no amount of post-processing will bring them around. It seems like there's no way to tell beforehand how some slides will turn out.
 
What a waste of time the photos were too far gone to do anything with
The big issue with that setup is all the light leaking around the slide. Good slide copiers use some form of bellows or tubes to make sure light only passes through the slide and not around the edges. They also make use of a macro lens to focus right on the slide itself.

As posted above, quality can vary a lot when copying slides but a good setup that minimizes light leakage around the slide and using a macro lens that can focus to 1:1 (for a full frame camera) right on the slide helps a lot.

FWIW, when using something like a Nikon ES-2 you can either use the recommended macro lens (60mm) or you can use additional extension tubes (sold as metal threaded lens hoods) and step up or step down adapter rings as necessary to use with other lenses like a 105mm macro lens.
 
could have done but the problem there is the slide is not very secure in the clothes peg Good Idea but setting it up would be a nightmare i think . keeping the tube in place would be another let alone supporting it
 
The Kodachrome 64 slides are holding up beautifully And I have many rolls reaching on 35 years. The first generation Sensia... not so much. Velvia 50F and Provia 100F still looking great 25 years later. But the Agfa Scala still looks amazing - of course that’s b&w but the grey tones on those slides are something else. The only digital b&w that’s ever looked this good to my eyes was the b&w CCD sensor of the first generation Leica monochrome (which was plagued with all sorts of issues but when it worked it was stunning).
oh, and yes, a good film scanner is worth every dollar.
 
If you decide to take your copying of slides further there is another write up on scanning slides on this thread.

I found it best to use the opaque plastic as it diffuses the flash light evenly across the slide/s.

This is one of my copies of a slide from 1976.
 
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