Taking pictures of slides

[Ben10]

Anybody done this? I have a Nikon D5100 with a nifty fifty, 18-70 and 55-200mm lens. I fancy taking some pics of some old slides and saw a chap do this in his house once with a homemade lightbox.
Any tips or past experience with this? He showed me pictures on his computer that he took from a slide which was 40 years old which I swear looked like it had just been taken!!

Just bought myself a small lightbox with a view of lighting the slide from behind, turning all other lights off and zooming my 55-200 onto the slide from a tripod?

 

[guysy]

I've laid a monitor flat and opened word or paint for the white background, laid the slide on and then taken pictures of the slide with my camera with decent results previously.

 

[Ben10]

Any examples?

 

[Brazo]

Wouldn't you need a macro lens? An old 35mm slide is the same size as a fullframe dslr sensor so you would need 1:1 macro on a full frame or less on a crop?