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Opteka HD Slide Copier for Canon EOS Digital SLR Cameras | 
 enlarge | Brand: Opteka
Category: Photography
List Price: $99.95
Buy New: $49.95
You Save: $50.00 (50%)
Rating:  18 reviews
Media: Electronics
Size: Small
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7 x 3 x 3
Warranty: 10 Year Warranty
MPN: SLD-EOS
Model: SLD-EOS
UPC: 084438995602
EAN: 0084438995602
ASIN: B000EQ24Z4
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Built-in high definition close-up optics allow you to transfer slides into digital cameras easily with no loss in quality, and it will actually enhance your pictures! | | • | Very easy to attach and use with any 58mm or 52mm threaded lens | | • | High Definition - 2 times the resolution of standard high definition copiers | | • | Digital multi-coating greatly reduces the appearance of lens flare and ghosting caused by reflections | | • | Made in Japan, 10 Year Warranty |
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Product Description
The Opteka High Definition Digital Duplicator screws into the filter thread of the lens adapter or existing lens. This means it can be connected to almost all digital cameras. The built-in high definition close-up optics allow you to transfer slides into digital cameras easily with no lose in quality. You will actually enhance you pictures!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Opteka Digital Duplicator HD2 December 26, 2008
For the price, this device works quite well as a quicker alternative to scanning slides, useful if you have many old slides to get through (although the best ones might still be worth scanning). I'm using it with a Canon DSLR (EOS450D known as Rebel XSi in USA) and getting decent results at f/11 and 80mm, at least when the original slide is well exposed and focused. Auto-focusing and exposure generally work well enough. Fortunately, however, I still have an old EF 28-80 USM lens (that came with my Canon EOS100 back in 1992), because neither of the two new EF-S lenses that I now have can work with this device. The kit EF-S 18-55 mm IS lens is too wide angle (the Opteka needs a focal length around 80 mm) and the EF-S 55-250 mm IS cannot focus close enough. Many people might only have these lenses so would be unable to work with the Opteka.
 Works well December 12, 2008
This is a good alternative, for the price, for transferring slides to a digital format. For lighting, I am using a halogen desk lamp bounced off of a piece of white poster board. If I use the light directly I get a "pebbled" effect from the built in diffuser. The magnification using the standard lens with the Canon EOS Rebel doesn't fill the sensor area so I have to crop the resulting image. But I'm too cheap to spend $100's of dollars for another lens.
Some of my slides fit too tightly into the holder so I've had trouble with the focus getting messed up as I push the slide in. (Because the lens on the camera rotates more easily than the barrel.) My work-around is to use auto-focus, after the initial setup, and then the slide gets rotated back into the correct position as the camera focuses.
 Digital Slide Copier November 19, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Worked very well once I mastered the focusing and lighting set up. Natural lighting is by far the best and achieved by pointing the camera and slide copier unit at a brightly lit window
Works fine but doesn't accept thicker plastic framed slides August 3, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Works fine with my Canon XSI w/18-55 Kit Lens. Slides do require minor cropping and tuning after taking the picture of them - nothing to complain about. My only real annoyance with this thing is that it only fits my paper/cardboard style framed slides - my thicker plastic framed slides (many from Germany) do NOT fit in the device. I think I will probably go through all my thinner framed slides first, and then disassemble it and reassamble it with some kind of spacer to make room for the fatter slides. If it wasn't for the issue with the thicker slide frames it would receive 5 stars.
 Pebbly Background; Image Sharpness Degraded July 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Look for my comments on the Bower as well. When I ordered a Bower slide copier for its moveable slide stage (pictured with a yellow box), I got this Opteka copier with a fixed slide stage instead (shown with a red box).
The Opteka does have a somewhat sharper lens than the Bower, but that is saying little. The Opteka still degrades image sharpness substantially. My criteria are not that stringent. But there is a very noticeable reduction in image quality when copying with the Opteka. If you are going to copy hundreds or thousands of slides, you should consider whether all of them looking blurry will matter to you. Also, the cheap, thin diffuser on the Opteka has a pebbly texture, which is visible in the image of the slide copy.
The Bower was much worse. The center was sharp, but the edges looked like one of those blurred-out dream scene images you see in the movies. It was almost indescribably poor.
In comparison, the copy of the same slide that I made with a good quality macro lens was far far better than the results from either slide copier.
I can't recommend either slide copying accessory, and I hope I can save you the trouble of buying two different ones to find out that both were unacceptable.
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