John Coyle writes:
> I mount those that are worth projecting, then save the rest in archive pages
> uncut. That way, if I have duplicate frames (which I used to do a lot for
> peace of mind, but don't nowadays so much) I can scan the uncut one more easily
> than having to wreck the mount. Although, the new scanner allows me to scan
> mounted slides too!
Up until my most recent roll I was getting my slides mounted & boxed. Very
convenient to store and only cost a couple of dollars more than unmounted.
The down-side was that the lab doesn't always mount the slides properly, and
being cheap mounts you can't reseal them. Plus, they use an old dot matrix
printer to put the frame numbers and other info on the mount, and sometimes I
get little bits of black stuff on my slides, presumably bits of ink ribbon.
I got sick enough of it to switch to getting my film returned cut & sleeved, and
I'm mounting them myself using Gepe mounts which I can take apart and reset
as much as I like. The other reason I switched to this is that since I bought my
scanner I've decided that I trust the scanner's filmstrip holder better than slide
mounts, as far as film flatness is concerned.
Also, because the slide scanner can only handle single frames of 6x7 (instead
of 120 strips), I've gone to Gepe mounts for those as well. I figured that since
I have to cut my film strips into separate frames I'm going to need some way of
storing them and the slide mounts are really the only way I can keep any
information with the slide, as well as being easy to handle and relatively robust.
Cheers,
- Dave
David A. Mann, B.E. (Elec)
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
"Why is it that if an adult behaves like a child they lock him up,
while children are allowed to run free on the streets?" -- Garfield
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