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Oops, I mispoke. I used the Nikon BR-5 mount adapter ring, so that the K5 tube could be attached to the 60 2.8D.
Here is the website with the instructions: http://www.scantips.com/es-1.html
Scroll down to "DX Cameras" (if you have a DX camera, otherwise there is FX info farther down the page) and it has a diagram of the BR-5 ring, the K5 tube (which is part of the K tube set that I bought from KEH) and the ES-1. It also explains that some lenses don't need the tubes, e.g. the 40 micro.
Before I found this method of slide copying, I tried two brand new scanners with rather unsatisfactory results. One was a $400 Optek and another was a $700 Epson. Unfortunately I had to return them. I hate returning gear, but they were so slow and clearly not getting all of the resolution and detail in the slides. With the ES-1 and my D7000 I was able to get grain-level detail.
Also, I tried the method of putting the slides on a light table and using a tripod. It worked, but wasn't quite as good as the scanners, and definitely not as good as the ES-1 solution. Of course I probably could have improved the results with better technique and more careful alignment, but it didn't seem to be repeatable enough to do hundreds of slides quickly.
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