It's not quite that simple, kirbic. Bower has been in business since the late 40's. We used to use their "slide duplicator" to cheap-dupe our own slides for clients back int he early 70's. It was a tube with a Nikon mount, a slide changer, and a simple magnifying lens to gain 1:1 duplication, and it worked GREAT.
I haven't used one for a couple decades at least. But I see no reason to doubt this product, based on personal experience. It's simple and effective. The PRICE, now, I don't know about that. I haven't researched the market price. But I believe the product itself is likely to be of a workmanlike quality just because of the maker. It doesn't take a hell of a lot of sophisticated optics to make a simple magnification lens, and these guys been selling these things for a LONG time, so they can't be all bad.
That's the manufacturer, of course, not the reseller on e-bay.
Robt.
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