Create beautiful slides from pictures in books, stamps, coins, documents, or any flat object! Use the copystand as pictured below and located in our library on the side of the electronic reference center. Objects that you wish to replicate are placed on the flat base.
A Nikon F with a 70mm macro lens mounts to the column and moves up and down so you may adjust your framing, focus and check your exposure, and shoot!
For more information about the Nikon F, click here:
http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/hardwares/classics/michaeliu/cameras/nikonf/index.htm
Framing is what you see through the viewfinder. What you see is what you get. But, to be absolutely safe, leave a little space around the edge of the object. When slides are put in their mounts, many times part of the extreme edges of the picture are lost.
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Focus by using the center split circle. Any straight line on the object is split in this region unless it is in perfect focus. The outer most ring on the camera adjusts the focus.
Exposure of the slide is how intense and how long the light meets the film. This effects how light or dark the slide comes out. There are two adjustments for this: the iris (adjustment pictured above) and the speed (adjusted on the camera as indicated below). The meter helps you with exposure.
