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<blockquote data-quote="Guidofisherman" data-source="post: 204930" data-attributes="member: 17063">I need help/advice on how to digitize my 40 year old wedding slides&nbsp; that have just been found and returned to me. There are about 150 of&nbsp; these slides that I need to digitize as a Christmas present for my wife&nbsp; who has never seen these as they were lost. (We only had one wedding&nbsp; photo all these years.) I also have several thousand other slides to do&nbsp; eventually. I want to copy them myself and process using Aperture and&nbsp; Photoshop. I am looking at buying an &quot;Opteka HD Slide Copier&quot; from&nbsp; Amazon to use with my Nikon D40. I have a Nikon AF-S 35mm 1.8 DX prime&nbsp; and a Nikon 18-200 zoom. My question is: Will the prime focus or do I&nbsp; need something like a 2x ring? Is the better choice to use the 18-200&nbsp; and buy a reducer ring to get to the 52mm? How do I set it up to get&nbsp; things to work?<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Opteka-Slide-Copier-Digital-Cameras/dp/B000FA76JS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1378475482&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=slide+copier" target="_blank">Amazon.com: Opteka HD Slide Copier for Nikon D5000, D3100, D3000, D700, D300, D200, D100, D90, D80, D70, D60, D50, D40, D40x, D2HS, D2XS, D3 Digital SLR Cameras: Camera &amp; Photo</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Guidofisherman, post: 204930, member: 17063"] I need help/advice on how to digitize my 40 year old wedding slides that have just been found and returned to me. There are about 150 of these slides that I need to digitize as a Christmas present for my wife who has never seen these as they were lost. (We only had one wedding photo all these years.) I also have several thousand other slides to do eventually. I want to copy them myself and process using Aperture and Photoshop. I am looking at buying an "Opteka HD Slide Copier" from Amazon to use with my Nikon D40. I have a Nikon AF-S 35mm 1.8 DX prime and a Nikon 18-200 zoom. My question is: Will the prime focus or do I need something like a 2x ring? Is the better choice to use the 18-200 and buy a reducer ring to get to the 52mm? How do I set it up to get things to work? [URL="http://www.amazon.com/Opteka-Slide-Copier-Digital-Cameras/dp/B000FA76JS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1378475482&sr=8-1&keywords=slide+copier"]Amazon.com: Opteka HD Slide Copier for Nikon D5000, D3100, D3000, D700, D300, D200, D100, D90, D80, D70, D60, D50, D40, D40x, D2HS, D2XS, D3 Digital SLR Cameras: Camera & Photo[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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