Annsan & others Some years ago, I was fortunate enough to do part-time work at a London picture agency. This entailed libary duties, plus stock photography. Originally called All-Action, then became Big Pictures. We started off with say 6 original rolls from one job. Get these back from the lab in trans-sleeves, Schneider loupe & scissors to cut & mount keepers. Make up a selection from these, hopefully comprising 20 shots with impact.The light table is around 3' x 6', perspex top and glass on top. These are hand mounted into card mounts. Then the selection goes to the duping lab by bike courier. Dupe 20 sets. Dupes come back in long single sleeves. Now the cool part. The rolls of dupes go into a German made cutting/mounting/captioning machine. It has two stacks of slide mount halves (plastic), a qwerty keyboard & lcd display, and processes 30 slides a minute. All we then need to do is make up the original selection, x20. There's a black art to a "selection". Then we Fedex to 20 destinations - Paris Match, Hello, Colorific, etc. All done and dusted in a few hours. Some great memories - and opportunities to use top drawer kit. Natch I never followed thru as I guess the pap work never really appealed to me, although the money can be alluring. Kind regards Peter - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
