Had I had the appropriate equipment, this might have been a better route in terms of quality. I have a macro lens, but lacked the means of ensuring that the slide was held rigidly parallel to the lens for taking the photograph. The alternative which may have given better results (it should, in theory, ignoring colour issues) would have been to use a macro lens on a digital camera. Having completed the job using the duplicator, I had to redo using the scanner because very few were correctly framed the scanner gave me better results (Epson V850 flatbed). The other issue I encountered with a duplicator was that the slides tended to slip in the holder, and avoiding truncation or sloping slides proved far, far more difficult than I had allowed for. The scanner gave better colour correction because the scanner software I use (VueScan) was aware of issues like fading and could apply corrections automatically. ![]() ![]() My experience is undoubtedly specific to the equipment I used, but for what it's worth: ![]() I had to digitise some old slides last year for an exhibition, and I tried both scanner and slide duplicator on a digital camera.
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