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Opteka HD Slide Copier for Canon EOS Digital SLR Cameras

Opteka HD  Slide Copier for Canon EOS Digital SLR Cameras

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Brand: Opteka
Category: Photography

List Price: $99.95
Buy New: $49.95
You Save: $50.00 (50%)



Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars 15 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

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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Editorial Reviews:

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!


Customer Reviews:   Read 10 more reviews...

3 out of 5 stars Works fine but doesn't accept thicker plastic framed slides   August 3, 2008
Jens (San Diego, CA)
2 out of 2 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.


1 out of 5 stars Pebbly Background; Image Sharpness Degraded   July 22, 2008
Mike (Sheboygan Falls, Wisc., uSA)
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.



5 out of 5 stars Opteka HD Slide Copier for Canon EOS Digital SLR Cameras   May 16, 2008
Charles M. Holz
The Opteka HD Slide Copier for Canon EOS Digital SLR Cameras works great and easy to use. I digitized about 120 slides for a 80th Birthday DVD and it work flawlessly. Great product and a great price and super fast deliverly.


5 out of 5 stars Slide Copier   April 15, 2008
F. Gerhart
The device worked as advertised. The proper adaptor rings were furnished for my canon zoom lense. A photo bulb and reflective lamp shade works well as a light source for the correct color exposure. Under and over exposed slides can be corrected somewhat. Highly recommended.


1 out of 5 stars doesn't work   March 22, 2008
Paul Harless
0 out of 6 found this review helpful

Quality wise unit was o.k. Tried to use it with several different lenses, but unit would not focus.There is no means on the unit to focus it.I found the unit worthless.