Slide duplicator

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As Slide Duplicator are special purpose devices for conventional SLR and SLR digital cameras (similar interchangeable camera lenses called) that allow without major technical effort than slide perpetuated photographs , but to reproduce easily visually satisfying form photographically.

Slide duplicators in stores

Industrially produced slide duplicators are offered on the open market as compact lens attachments for SLR cameras at prices between 80 and 100 euros. However, since the demand from retailers is not estimated to be very high, slide duplicators are offered less in photo shops than in online shops . As a rule, they have a 52 mm connection thread, which can also be used on all common SLR digital cameras with a suitable digital camera lens adapter . As a further variant, there are also slide duplicators, which can be connected directly to a reflex camera using a T2 connection .

Self-made

Slide duplicators can also be built by yourself by combining the required individual parts (lens, tube, slide carriage, etc.). In order to ensure optimal image illumination, it should be ensured that the slide duplicator is equipped with a so-called (light) diffuser (see Gucki ).

Use for digital slide reproduction

Although slide duplicators have existed since 35mm slide films , the demand has increased significantly since the digital camera quickly ousted the 35mm camera from the photo market . Since the digital photo storage and presentation on TV - PC - and notebook - monitors the time-consuming construction of slide projector and screen is unnecessary and electronic image editing programs offer more than the classical image reproduction far beyond reaching creative ways arises for many owners of slide collections the question how you can reproduce your conventional slides as cheaply as possible as digital photos . Corresponding services are indeed offered on the free market, but digital reproductions of conventional slides by commercial providers are associated with relatively high unit prices. The larger the slide collection, the more profitable it is to do the digital reproduction yourself. Those who shy away from the high acquisition costs for high-quality slide scanners and have no professional requirements for image quality can easily achieve results with the use of slide duplicators that are quite satisfactory for a presentation on TV, PC and notebook monitors . In addition, the image quality can be improved by selecting a high number of pixels , i.e. a high image resolution, as a presetting on the digital camera for the digital recordings .

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