Old slides copied with macro lens.. Photo Gallery by Arlon at pbase.com

Old slides copied with macro lens..

I have a bunch of old family slides I decided to make a holder and try copying them with a Nikkor 55mm micro lens and a home made "fixture" to hold everything togather. Results where better than I expected.. Cheap custom setup..

wifes brothers, San Antonio Tx, 1967	wife 1970	Wife, brothers, dad, Germany 1970	grandparents and old Dodge Royale
sister/admirers	white sands NM 1960	party party in the pool (1952)	big sister 1952
My wife in the green July 1968	mom/sister Guadalupe river 1952	me Easter 1957 (nothing has changed)	Me 4 years old El Paso (Fort Bliss)
plymouth	studebaker	Welcome sign base K2 Korea 1951	"Honey" wagon K2 Korea, 1951
Korean workers, K2 Korea 1951	Capt. Wolf K2, 1951	Dad, K2 Korea, 1951	Dad, Itazuke AFB Japan, 1951
Roll call.. K2	Holiday Inn at K2	Home PR picture..	Taxi to Itazuki Japan
easter 1953 (crop)	big sister "stepping out"	f-94 "night fighter"	Japan 1951 I think..
temple1.JPG	my custom slide copier	more custom slide copier	slide holder
45.jpg	dad and others	Rare F-82 "twin p51"	dad1.jpg
dad	plane	ADSC_6633x.jpg	ADSC_6639x.jpg
friend in a bar it looks like	dad with wheels	unknown "feed and feeding"	unknown
ADSC_0013x.jpg	ADSC_0114x.jpg	ADSC_0118x.jpg	aDSC_7131x.jpg

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Eric		22-Dec-2010 16:47
My Dad was an Air Force Chaplain at Itazuki from 53 to 56, and we lived off and on base during that time. The slides my Dad took have the same look and feel as your pictures, and your Dad looks ageless in his Air Force blues. Thanks for sharing them.

robst		11-Sep-2008 12:36
great idea, i have thousands of slides my dad took in the 60's I will have to do the same.

Eric Delmar		05-Aug-2008 00:01
Great stuff. I love the color and feel of the old stuff. Thanks for sharing. And nice job on rigging your slide copy setup. Nice ingenuity.

Ted Chappell		03-May-2008 02:21
Thanks for sharing these images of your family with us, most enjoyable. Cheers

Dan Greenberg		11-Mar-2008 02:34
Arlon - this is a really cool gallery. You did an excellent job copying them for all to enjoy. There were some great photographers in your family and I am glad they thought to take a lot of these. I especially like the pictures of the cars they used to own.

Arlon		27-Oct-2007 17:36
My family slides where shot with an old Konica "Konirapid-s" and 50mm f2.8 lens.

Joe		27-Oct-2007 16:30
these are great. Do you have any idea what camera was used to shoot the originals?

Patrick DEBETENCOURT		04-May-2007 14:16
I appreciated a lot to discover these old slides ! It was a great idea to offer them a new life on Pbase ! Patrick

Dan		10-Apr-2007 18:24
Enjoyed this gallery. Makes me want to retrieve my old album and share it with others.

jean louis BERGAMO BOUFAREU		09-Apr-2007 19:17
This is a really great collection of images. it revives one disappeared time which makes party of the history . Good idea and good works

John Amato		02-Nov-2006 13:06
Touching and nice to see that you were able to preserve these.

Arlon		31-Oct-2006 19:10
I used an old 55mm micro lens, short extension tube, Foot of 1x4 to bolt the camera down on and a slide holder with a pvc tube between them. All is rigid so once it's focused, you can change slides very quickly. I like the exposure control I get with the camera much better than a scanner and it's a lot faster.. For light I used a small flourescent sewing light...

Brent Powell		31-Oct-2006 14:19
This is a really great collection of images. I hadn't thought about trying this but thanks to you I have a new idea! Good work!

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