Slides mounted or unmounted.

[byronfry]

Hello everybody.

I was wondering if when scanning using a nikon V or similar would you recommend getting your slides mounted, or getting them left uncut then doing it yourself?

Also, is there any good resources for getting good results using a Nikon scanner?

Thanks

 

[Lilserenity]

I would say your only consideration here is, do you envisage wanting to project them ina projector at any time in the future?

If you think you might, I'd get them mounted, if you definitely have no aspiration to project, then get them un mounted.

If you end up wanting to get a projector and have a large amount of unmounted slides, it's a headache you could have avoided.

Scanning individual mounted slides is slower but not too bad.

 

[historicist]

Unmounted is much quicker. I'd only mount if I wanted to project or was very selective about what I scanned in.

 

[payasam]

My mounted slides from 1981 have survived well because there's no danger of scratches. Film, on the other hand, if repeatedly pulled out of sleeves and put back...

 

[calexg]

Unmounted slides store more compactly and the scanning goes a lot quicker. Slide mounts also crop a small amount of your transparency.

Are you planning on projecting them or just scanning them? There's your answer.

 

[Al Kaplan]

Nothing beats the impact of sitting in a darkened room looking at Kodachrome slides (or even Ektachrome) projected on a 5 ft. screen with a decent lens on a slide projector. As for storage concerns, mounted slides make culling an easy task. Really now, how many perfectly exposed GREAT shots do you get on a 36 exposure roll? Keep the half dozen (or fewer) slides you like and chuck the rest.

 

[Lilserenity]

I'm will Al on this, and I do the same with negatives too. Any under/over exposed or drastically terrible compositions are binned immediately.

That said currently on a roll of 36 I've been getting at least 12 that I really like!

As Al says, viewing slides as they're meant to be, projected is a really warming experience, one of the joys of shooting 35mm in fact. (I know you can get MF projectors but they are not as prevalent)