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One of my interests is photography. One project is to take my old Pentax Spotmatic II slides and convert them to a digital format. Looking at slide copiers it became apparent that the costs were excessive for a single project. Looking at sending the slides to a commerical slide copy company resulted in the same decision: Costs were excessive. Considering other alternatives, Googling, resulted in the decision to acquire a copy stand. Commerical devices were again too costly for this project. Also from Googling a number of people showed that adquate copies could be made of slides with a digital camera and a copy stand. The resulting copy stand was created and is working quite well. Initally my intention was to place the copy stand on a table, but after thinking about it, my decision was to add legs and a shelf to the existing stand. Therefore there are some photographs of the copy stand without its legs and shelf and also photographs of the copy stand with its legs and shelf.

After using the copy stand it became apparent that there needed to be a finer adjustment for the camera holder. So the stand was modified with a 1/2 inch threaded rod and crank. The rod goes from the top through a 1/2 nut and washers under the camera slide down through the top of the stand into a pocket with two 1/2 nuts locked together. This required another bolt and nut lower than the originial nut and bolt holding the camera slide to the back of the camera stand to prevent the camera slide from rotating with the slide was moved up or down above the stand table surface. When the crank is turned the nut and washers under the camera slide move the slide up or down. The nut in the camera slide is held in place by a wrench mounted to a wood block. The locked nuts under the copy stand top prevent the bottom of the rod from moving up or down. This allows very good control of the up and down position of the camera. Moving the light box back and forth takes care of the lateral movement required for positioning the slide or negative to be copied. B&W negatives are converted to positives via software for viewing and placing the image on a DVD or as part of a slide show.

View Thirty shows the wood block that holds large negatives flat on the light box along with the plastic holder for strips of negatives and regular 35mm slides mounted in a cardboard holder.

Copy Stand

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