Actually I prefer not to even use a diffuser though do at times for convenience of looking at little 35mm KR135's. My box is cheap cheap compared to the expensive stuff one can order. Thus my custom light box has adjustable masking sheets that adjust the rectangle for whatever the image size. Maybe looking at several side by side or with a mild magnifier to gauge the overall image for instance. However one will always have reasons to view slides without a loupe some of the time. If one is always looking through a loupe, masking out the rest of the light table serves no purpose. One is staring onto a bright table making ones pupil shrivel up. Most light tables are essentially 5000k lamps beneath white transluscent plastic diffusers. The flaw is that a slide will almost always look better if one is looking down on an illuminated slide that has a black mask over the rest of the light source. Connventional wisdom for light table designs has a serious flaw despite the fact most are far more costly than materials they are made from. These days when I Photoshop edit huge drum scan files for large Lightjet5k prints, my lightbox is right beside me at the computer so I can match the color balance closely to the image. Of course I have an old Kodak Carousel projector for the old 35mm slides. Maybe the smaller 8x11in model of the slimlite plano is a bit brighter? But with this being the outer dimensions you'll have trouble getting a whole roll onto the lit area at once.I have been looking at transparencies for three decades. But for realistic viewing comparable to projection this one might be spot on. If you somewhat underexpose your film that older style model with 4x5 inch lit area will be better punching through that densitiy. But for physically viewing a whole film roll of slides it is basically not perceivable. I don't use it as a backlight for digitisation for that reason. I'd like it to be a bit brighter than it is, and the lights are at the top so there is a slight drop off towards the bottom. Don't know how 6x9 is cut, so won't comment.Īs I said in my previous post. I don't use other 120 formats, but I'm sure 6.7 will be fine. Also an entire 120 film with 6圆 slides, three per strip.

I'm talking about unmounted film strips of six frames each. This one is great for having an entire 135 film with a few more than 36 frames on it. But the SKU of 202454 matches the label on mine (2454). If you look at Kaisers US website you'll find is as the 10.5'x15.5' model. The lit area is 9 in by just over 12.5 in. I just had a look at mine and it sais 5000K. As fs999 said, the Kaiser one is specified to be at 5000K. It's running on AAA batteries, while the newer ones have a build in Li-Ion battery. Mine is just big enough to fully iluminate a 4x5 sheet and has a non glossy surface. When I digitise they come out of the sleeve and are quite dustfree.īut for camera digitisation I use a previous generation Kaiser pad. My E6 lab puts the film in endless sleeves and cuts it into strips of six (135) or three (120 6圆). It is great, though, to look at a whole roll of slide film at once and as such perfect for the OPs use case. I'm also not impressed with the brightness and the glossy surface finish is sensitive and a dust magnet. I also seem to have a slightly bad contact in the switch. Illumination is from one side only and shows a light gradient. Obviously a buyer can have it cosmetically customised, but in all likelihood it's the same inside. Looking at this Reflecta and some images I've seen elsewhere I believe this is an OEM design. I have a Kaiser Slimlite Plano, the medium size I think.

Light table for slides