On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 21:15:22 GMT, Leo Hall wrote:

>What is the best/easiest/economical/practical way to transfer slides to
>video? I am thinking about shooting the projected slide on a sheet covered
>wall, and then shooting the slide with my camera. Is this the best way to do
>this?

No. And, well, contrary to popular opinion, I find that
scanning the slides does not give me the best results.
I use a small Nikon slide duplicator designed for
attaching to the front of a 52mm-threaded macro
lens. I use a 58->52mm step-down ring on my VX2000,
with 52mm-threaded close-up lenses (chosen to give
the right image size and focus with the duplicator
used) with the duplicator attached to these. The
results look great, with excellent color, tonality,
and sharpness, and with none of the artifacting I
sometimes get with bringing scans into the editing
program. Slightly better results (VERY slight
residual noise effects are removed) by exporting the
slide footage from the timeline and reimporting it
as a still - the images then have NO irregularities at
all, and remain noiseless and "quiet" in the video
when viewed on either a TV or a computer monitor...
The Nikon duplicator is around $50, as I recall, and
good close-up lenses or achromats can run anywhere
at the low end up to about $40 each...