Sorted: Photographic copy stand

Zoolooter

Long shot, but there's some keen photographers on here. Looking for something stable and fairly solid. Found a tonne of Dad's 35mm and medium format negs and slides from the 60' and 70's. The idea was to use my 35mm DSLR and tape the negs/slides to a light box, photograph them and then convert in Photoshop.

rlw

Sorry to be pedantic but a 35mm DSLR.

If you have lots to do, there are copying attachments that will fit your camera, like this.   I have used these commercially and with a bit of effort you can get top class results. 

https://www.eos-magazine.com/articles/viewfinder/slidecopying.html

Zoolooter

@rlw ;Thanks, yes, looked into those. Great for 35mm slides, but what about the 6x6 slides I need to copy? Hence a cheap copy stand, and turn the iPad into a lightbox. 

boogieman

I used a scanner to convert 35mm slides and negs. It should be able to cope with larger slides ok too. Mine’s an Epson, but there’s plenty of other brands. 

Zoolooter

@boogieman If only I’d kept my old Epsom photo scanner! Yes, they are great, but are about £380 new now. Really wanted to do this project on the cheap/ish.

boogieman

Zoolooter said:

@boogieman If only I’d kept my old Epsom photo scanner! Yes, they are great, but are about £380 new now. Really wanted to do this project in the cheap/ish.

Good grief, I didn’t realise they had gotten quite so pricey, I think I paid about £140 for mine. 

trolley

I have a copy stand - huge!
I could let it go - never use it. 
And I'm not a million miles away
PM me if you want more info

Zoolooter

@trolley Pm'd

4string

This might be useful - from @OilCityPickups other life :-)
and using a  scanner

OilCityPickups

I use the Epson 4990 to digitise negatives from 6x6cm medium format, 6x7, 5x4 inch large format and 5x7 large format. I wouldn't really recommend it for 35mm - I DSLR scan all my 35mm work with a Nikon D800 with a 60mm micro Nikkor lens - much better and as good as expensive lab scans. Were I starting from scratch again I's probably pick up a cheaper older DSLR like the Canon EOS5 mk 1 or 2
and use that with a macro lens. 

Zoolooter

@OilCityPickups i’ve also got the D800 just need to pickup a suitable used macro lens. Never ventured into macro photography, is a 60mm the best option for copying 35mm and 6x6? It’s obviously going to be adjustable on the copy stand. 

OilCityPickups

The 60mm Nikkor  is glorious 
Here's my review 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb_SacLQK6Q&t=7s 

it's also the sharpest Nikkor lens I possess - and it's actually sharper than my 50mm f2 Leica Summitar 

Van_Hayden

I concur - the 60mm is a cracking bit of glass and well up to the task. 

Van_Hayden

@OilCityPickups ;
Nice collection of videos on YouTube - won't help my camera GAS....