This is made from an old "Blondie" Lunch Box
and the upright portion is the adjusting rail
from an old 8 x 10 Graflex View Camera which was
in my Junk box. It has two 40w bulbs inside that
shine up thru a piece of frosted glass mounted in
the Lunch Box. Slides are positioned using two
"Pop sickle" sticks that are held in position with
tape. This is so that various size slides may be copied.
I use the c-3020z camera to copy with. There is a hidden
function to this camera that allows one to duplicate
Macro Mode for close-up work.
A 2012 update:
I am now using the c-750uz Olympus P&S camera.
I set the WB to Tungsten, ISO 100, Aperture preferred (f5.6)
The camera is also set to SMacro and the shutter trip is via
the on-board camera timer. The distance from the face of the lens
to the slide is approx. 1.0" This will give a image that is is
just slightly larger than the film area of the slide. I use PSE8
to both crop the camera image and any PP required. All my copied images
are then saved to my hard drive into a folder named for the year the
original slide was shot and with a descriptive file name like "Aunt Lucy at etc."