First Look | Nikon ES-2 Film Digitizing Adapter

Super sir

Will the E2 support a 72mm filter size?

So wouldn’t this work on any camera as long as it fit the lens?

Also does it work with the Nikon D810

Does this work with Tamron SP 90mm F/2.8 Di MACRO LENS

Thank you David, very helpful.

This is an advert for the D650 with very little on the adapter. As a first look review it sucks.

To reverse a negative in Lightroom, go to tone curve, select linear mode, and use existing points to flip the RGB curve so that highlights become shadows and vice versa. Then export the file as a DNG and re-import it into Lightroom, and all your adjustment sliders should work normally.

This is an overpriced product for what is essentially a plastic tube and some slide holders. And it doesn't work without a macro lens or a full-frame DSLR.

"Just shoot the images in RAW and when you import them into your photo editor, flip 'em!"

Hah! If only it were so simple.

Super nice demo. Thank you.

Great article - very useful! Thanks!

thank U

I notice in the video that you demonstrated that ES-2 with the film in the 35mm holder. From what I've learned, you supposed to shoot the negatives with the Emulsion side facing the Lens. Not away from the lens. After you shoot you are supposed to reverse the image in Light Room or Photoshop. Does it really make a difference? I don't know! What say you?

Need one of these for 120mm film.

But how do you get those AMAZING film colors that we shoot film for? To me only the Fuji Frontier and Noritsu provide the right colors.. Flat bed scanners and digitizing with a dslr is all guesswork with the colors. 20 random photographers will make the colors look 20 different ways! None will look the way the film is supposed to!

Thanks, that was useful! Time to clean my F80)))

Holy Crap ! $350 for some moulded plastic !! I think I'll keep working on the cokin filter idea, just need to couple the filter holder to the negative tray from a cheapie slide scanner and I've saved $350...

why a shutter release cable? If the unit is a good fit to the lens it shouldn't matter if you bump it during exposure.? I've been trying to make something like this myself with a cokin filter holder and extension tubes.

I think using an LED light source is really not the best idea considering the poor rendition of reds. Flash would be my first choice.

Well, I can't and never will be able afford a bloody D850 unless I find a dead rich person in the alley way with load of $$$$$ on him, I do have a D5300 and decades worth of slides and negatives,

Can this ES-2 be used with a D810 for slides?

Autofocus at the end didn’t seem to work. The square was red.

D850...check. Nikon 105mm micro...check. Light...nope. What LED light is that?

Would this work with a Nikon 50mm1,8 D lens .

Is there any kind of system like this for Canon?

I wonder if the ES-2 will work on my Zeiss 100mm F2 Micro lens?

Thank you for your effort. May I suggest you delete the music because it is distracting and from my mobile it clangs and distresses. Music for music venues, silence for concentration.

Can this device work on a crop sensor like D500?

This looks like a Blast!!! I have a lot of slides- but no where as many as you... I think i need to do this on a rainy day!! It's reasonable price too!!
Thank you.

Thanks a lot for this DF - very informative. My only problem, I have a collection of over 200 slides, and two-at-a-time is going to take me forever!

Why would you use this instead of just using a dedicated scanner, it seems like a lot of mucking about and there's no way this is faster than a proper scanner. Didn't Nikon use to make a half decent scanner?

Slides are the best. If taken care of they will look like they were shot yesterday. I did a bunch of my family’s from the 50s-60s era and they were crystal clear.

Why is this anything New?!?!?
Slide copiers have been out long before DSLR's!
Single slide coping is just a serious pain in the ass!

What light is that you're using?

I thought it was Nikon Mirrorless

Is there such a system for Sony a7? Or may the Nikon-System be used on other lenses as well?..