Nikon FHW00301 ES-1 Slide Copying Adapter , Black

Product Information

OpenGL ES 1.1 added features such as mandatory support for multitexture, better multitexture support (including combiners and dot product texture operations), automatic mipmap generation, vertex buffer objects, state queries, user clip planes, and greater control over point rendering. [7] bitmap operations for copying pixels individually, evaluators, and user selection operations are not allowed; high quality ETC2 / EAC texture compression as a standard feature, eliminating the need for a different set of textures for each platform;

p>This rig is MUCH faster than using my Nikon Coolscan film scanner UNLESS the slide is scratched and dirty. Then the scanner is faster, because Digital ICE fixes most of the defects that are time consuming to fix in Photoshop.

p>Another fail! This combination still does not allow the 40mm lens to photograph a whole slide. The top is still cropped off.

p>Nice thing about this stage is I can maneuver it up and down and move the slide from side to side, so I have total control over positioning the slide in the stage. Now, obviously, with the ES-1, you don't really need the above tube or stage, but the ES-1 doesn't let you move the slide around and it will require more extension than I use, if you wan't to use a dupe rig like mine. Speaking of which, here it is:

p>There is quite a lot more to it. The ES-1 is designed for 1:1 slide copy with 55mm on a full frame body. Yes, slides are copied at 1:1 on a full frame camera, and the ES-1 paper says 60mm could also just about work (on full frame, at one end of the ES-1 range).

a} Stromat. l. 1. p. 329. {b} T. Bava Bathra, fol. 15. 1. {c} August. de Civ. Dei, l. 18. c. 36. Isidor. Origin. l. 6. c. 2. {d} Tract. Theolog. Politic. c. 10. p. 189 {e} Moreh Nevochim, par. 2. c. 45. {f} Hilchot Megillah, c. 2. sect. 18. {g} Misn. Megillah, c. 2. sect. 1. T. Bab. Megillah, fol. 18. 1. {h} Mensal. Colloqu. c. 31. p. 358. {i} The Saints Everlasting Rest, part 4. c. 3. sect. 1. {k} Apud Euseb. Eccl. Hist. l. 6. c. 25. {l} Apud ib. l. 4. c. 26. {m} Ad Domnion. & Rogat. tom. 3. fol. 7. F. Some more extensions are developed or in Development in Mesa for next OpenGL ES Version (see Mesamatrix).p>Thank you, Wayne F., for making me feel really stupid. You are correct -- I was inserting the slide into the ES-1 holder incorrectly. I was inserting it between the metal clips and the frosted glass, because the gaps between the clips and glass led me to believe that's where the slide should go. When I insert the slide between the clips and the tube -- per your advice -- the slide goes all the way down to the bottom of the holder, is centered in the viewfinder, and allows me to photograph the entire image. Perfect!

p>As you may have guessed, I'm shooting JPEGs, not RAW. Faded slides have low dynamic range that fits easily within a JPEG, and I can adjust exposure to stretch the histogram and get it perfect. The in-camera JPEG processing saves time later in Photoshop post-processing. If a slide needs special treatment for some reason, I use the Coolscan.

p>As Wayne says, the Nikon ES-1 slide copier is actually just two metal tubes and a slide holder. No lens. The copy lens is the Nikkor 40mm Micro (for a DX body) or the Nikkor 55mm Micro (for an FX body). Both are high-quality macro lenses -- as good as the glass in a film scanner. My 40mm lens easily resolves the film grain.

p>If film scanners are slow, they are absolutely speedy when compared with flatbed film scanners. The loading and setup process alone is a daunting task with a flatbed, then there is the seemingly endless wait while the scanner grinds and whines through the process.

p>My light source is natural daylight and I use auto white balance. Almost all of the old slides I'm copying are faded -- especially the Ektachromes. (Kodachrome is more stable.) The camera's AWB helps to correct the slide's skewed color balance. If necessary, I do further corrections in Photoshop.

p>Let us face it, however -- the need for digitizing film is increasingly becoming a task of interest mostly to historians, archivists, and such like. There are some good film scanners available new, but none of them fit my needs so well as the older one, but even the flatbeds are plenty good enough if web posting is your target task.

p>Most of these devices use a strong (+10) diopter lens so that slides can be copied with a normal lens. The quality is abysmal. The ES-1 is a very simple device consisting of a threaded (52 mm) tube which slides inside another tube to adjust the working distance, and a simple slide holder with a diffuser. The ES-1 is designed to be used on a dedicated macro lens which can get 1:1 magnification. The Nikon 55/2.8 Macro is an extremely good lens, but only capable of 1:2 magnification unless a PK13 (23 mm) extension tube is used. The combination is grain-sharp, even for Kodachrome, across the entire field.

p>Your rigs are much more complicated than mine. With a DX body, all that's needed is the Nikkor 40mm f/2.8G Micro lens and the Nikon ES-1 slide holder. Really. This rig allows full-size slide copies -- the slide image completely fills the viewfinder. You can rotate the slide using the ES-1's telescoping tube, and you can zoom into the slide for some in-camera cropping if you want. There's enough play in the holder to reposition the slide slightly in any direction.