Stand to reproduce 35mm film and slides with digital camera

This stand is easy to make and use, allows a digital camera with macro capability to take pictures of slides and film.
First I designed an acrylic ring with 4 holes for 1/4" acrylic rod avallable at any plastics supply store.
Using Corel Draw or AutoCAD, the dimensions of the ring have to be customized for your camera, I used a 1.8" inner circle and a 3.8" outer circle, the proper dimension for the 1/4" rods is .255" for a tight fit.
I made it at the Tech Shop

Step 1:

Designed with Corel Draw, cut in the Epilog 45 watt laser.

Comments

[rocketman221]

Nice, this is definitely cheaper that buying a film scanner.
You should post an instructable on how to use it though.

[Pat Pending]

Tidy instructable, well executed. I have found that using a black paper mask on the lightbox with a 24mmx36mm opening for the negative/transparency being copied eliminates the effects of stray light and improves image quality.

[impcpro]

You are perfectly right, I cut a heavy black paper mask of the same ring design but substituted the center ring with a 1.42" X .945" rectangle ( 24 X 36mm ) to use as a mask for film, but I did not include in the picture for clarity, with slides it is no problem.
I have copied old slides that were faded and color was all wrong, Photosop did an amazing job.

[radiomens]

good

[gserrano701]

Looks great and quite easy to build. Could you post some pictures to see the final result?