Do you have your slides mounted?

[Tuolumne]

Ever since scanning became my main mode of use, I have stopped having my slides mounted. The mounting cuts off slide real estate valuable for scanning, and the ubiquitous and crummy cardboard mounts leave a slurry of gunk on each slide that can only be removed in post-processing. But then I wonder, Why use slide film if I don't mount it for viewing when C-41 has a much better dynamic range? Also, unmounted slide film comes back from Dwayne's rolled on a cardboard spool which makes it curly, while C-41 is placed in nice pages that keep it flat. How about you? Do you still have your slide film mounted or not?

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[varjag]

I scan mostly, but I order them mounted. Makes it so much easier to edit when you get heaps of them back from the lab. If I find that some shot is obstructed by the frame, I peel the mount apart.

 

[capitalK]

I ask for them unmounted but once in a while the lab thinks it knows better than me! 😀

 

[teo]

Curious, I've always seen slides in plastic mount. I shoot mostly slides because I hate scanning and love seeing them projected.
To me it's easier to scan a slide than reversal film, I can check directly if the colors are ok.

 

[Al Kaplan]

I think that only the Nikon F finder ever claimed to actually show the full frame. Other cameras had (have?) slightly undersized finders/frame lines to compensate for undersized slide mounts and negative carriers.

Now don't tell us that you really thought that your Leica M6 framelines were spot-on accurate, please! And they've gotten even smaller to make sure that you won't chop off any heads.

One traditional reason for shooting slides, at least Kodachrome, was dye stability. Another was that publications were set up to work from slides, not prints or negatives. The final reason might be that High Speed Ektachrome was ASA 160 and pushable a stop without much loss in quality back when color negative films were still in the 32 to 40range.

Variag has the right idea there about editing mounted slides, even better if you have a BIG light table, like 2x3 feet or larger, so you can push them around, compare this one to that, which images work best with others, decide on a layout for a brochure.

 

[Tuolumne]

Al,
I don't think any of my frame lines are 100% accurate, but the rounded corners of cardboard slide mounts make you cut off ALOT of real estate to do a scan. I used to see plastic slide mounts, but now I can't find a developer who uses them. Dwaynes certainly doesn't. I scan all of my slides at fairly high res and compare them on my monitor. A 22" diagonal representation of a slide is way bigger than anything you can get on a light table. Never having been a pro photog, I never developed the light table habits of one, although I do own a large light table. I usually put unmounted strips of slides on them to do a quick check.

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[David William White]

Mostly mounted. Slide shows are wonderful thing, and great for editing (just dab the edge of the mount with a marker as you review the slides).

Separating 'keepers' from junk, then organizing them is a whole lot easier with mounted slides than with strips of film.

Unmounted are the 120 and stereo slides.

 

[photogdave]

Like most above, I have them mounted for ease of editing and projecting. I also prefer scanning slides to negatives.

 

[MartinP]

Unmounted, then glass mounts where relevant. The cardboard ones are too hard to break open for shifting to the glass mounts for projection. That said, I only have a few boxes of glass GePe mounts left and don't shoot more than a few rolls a year, so I hope the mounts are still made ! (Hopefully they'll last longer than Kodachrome production 🙁 ).

 

[titrisol]

Normally yes... my kids love slide-shows

 

[Tuolumne]

Where can one buy glass 35mm slide mounts?

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[jja]

I have them mounted, for two very good reasons, already stated above:

1. Editing is easiest for me when they are projected.
2. My kids really enjoy the slideshows.

 

[MartinP]

Where can one buy glass 35mm slide mounts?/T

Well, slide-mounts used to be a standard sort of thing, but any big retailer of film related stuff should have some I suppose. I bought a big box of the smaller boxes of fifty about six years ago so haven't looked recently.

There would usually be glassless, glassless with a foil mask (sharp edges on the screen), double glass (no 'popping' during projection) and double anti-Newton glass. Plus half-frame to 4x4cm for the normal '35mm' projector, then 6x4,5cm and 6x6cm for the big rollfilm ones.

I hope this isn't ancient history now....

 

[Al Kaplan]

Don't forget "lantern slides" that were 3.25 x 4 inches.

 

[Avotius]

No, I scan my slides, and using a digital projector for slide shows, its much nicer that way because I can also use the digital projector to watch movies 🙂

 

[Tuolumne]

Bump.

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[PMorenus]

Tuolumne,

Your signature says that you are in Englewood. Have you asked at your local shop - Bergen County Camera? I seem to recall seeing some boxes of Gepe mounts at their other location a while back.

It does seem that the places I would have purchased 'em from in the past are out of stock.

Back in the olden days when my portfolio was 35mm dupes I'd always mount my stuff in the black Gepe glass mounts. They sure did look great. But I certainly don't miss masking 35mm slides with the Mylar tape. I don't think I was ever able to use more than a third of the roll before it had attracted so much dust and lint on the edges that my masked slides would look like they had furry edges when viewed with a loupe.

 

[ZeissFan]

Option No. 3.

Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don't.

 

[kossi008]

Hello no.

Hello no.

That would be a waste. With the 5-15 good pictures I pull out of a roll, that would be overkill deluxe. Plus, I like to cheat on the horizons when I frame... 😀