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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 522697" data-attributes="member: 12496">Looks like you do have a short spacer between lens and ES-1 to handle DX being too long for slides.  I wondered if it was sufficient extension to achieve full frame copy?  The 55mm lens on DX has the view of a 82mm on FX, and needs more distance in front of lens (else the slide is cropped substantially). I find that a 20mm spacer works well for a ES-1 on a 60mm macro lens with DX. 10mm can work for 55mm.   This allows the ES-1 telescoping slide to be around the middle of its range, allowing sizing/cropping adjustment.   There are a few very inexpensive sources of 52mm extensions on Ebay, from Hong Kong, which I find reliable, but their free shipping takes at least two weeks.<a href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/items/?_nkw=52mm+diameter+extension+tube&_sacat=625&_fromfsb=&_trksid=m270.l1313&_odkw=52mm+diameter+extension+tube&_osacat=0" target="_blank">52mm diameter extension tube in Cameras and Photography Supplies | eBay</a>Not that ISO 400 is any issue, and your results are great, but my notion is there is no need for higher ISO.  The slide is attached to the lens, so there is no camera shake... any slow exposure is fine.   So instead of ISO 400 and f/5.6 at 1/50, why not ISO 100 at f/8 at 1/6 second?Actually, I prefer to use a flash for the light source. The ES-1 has the diffuser on it, so a bare speedlight can be aimed directly at the ES-1 (I use an old SC-17 hot shoe cord), at very low power, from 2 or 3 feet.  This lets the speedlight focus assist to be aimed directly into the center of the lens, so that auto focus works extremely well on it. And the light is consistent and repeatable (and very fast, FWIW).B&W negatives only need simple inversion, no problem (except for mounting them). But color negatives have the orange mask, and need a lot more.This can be done in photo editors, but it is a drastic tonal shift, and of course digital clips at 255, so while results can be "good enough" to be usable maybe, they just are never the same as doing it right (in analog).For color negatives, film scanners boost the exposure of the blue channel  about 4x, and boost the green channel about 2x (as referenced to the red channel  exposure).  This simulates a analog filter on the lens (no clipping).  The orange color varies slightly with film brand.Darkroom printing enlargers (color oriented to the printing paper too) do use filters at the lens (or dichroic light houses), but analog, no clipping.But digital just doesn't doesn't have range to get it done right.  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />   Some samples at bottom of page at <a href="http://www.scantips.com/es-1.html" target="_blank">Scanning thousands of slides? Try a digital camera</a></blockquote>

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