Re: Superslide

[Stephen Puckett <spuckett@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My wife and I do slide shows for seniors.  I try to add variety to 
the shows by interspersing superslides, verticals (portrait 
orientation), title slides, and other slides to the normal 
landscape-oriented 35mm slides.  That the audience loves the 
superslides has led my wife to support my MF hobby work  :)  
Unfortunately, the MF *stereo* part seems to be too personal and 
has not gotten the same support  :(   I like to have the same scene 
in the regular size and then followed it by a superslide version.  
The audience often goes, 'Wow'.  :)

I use scissors and Wess mounts - several sized apertures for
various cropping reasons.  The punches I have priced have always 
been over $50 which is too much for me right now.  Besides, I'm 
reasonably proficient with scissors anyway from all my stereo work  
;)  The pin-mounting (I don't have the exact terminology here at 
the office) on the mounts is accommodated by cutting a little notch 
or just pressing hard when closing the mount.  As I recall, some of 
the mounts available do not have the pin-mounting feature.

I dealt directly with Wess over the phone.  They were very 
helpful.  They have 'runs' of items so I had to wait a few weeks on 
a particular item.

I recall that I had trouble at first with the mounts hanging up in 
my 80-slot carousel.  Turned around, they worked fine so I'm now 
careful which way I put in the chip.  The 140-slot carousel proved
hopeless with these mounts because they often hang up in the 
narrower slots - I don't even use these carousels any more even for 
regular 35mm mounts.

We had a CF (curved field) projector lens on our Kodak Carousel 
projector.  This proved a problem even with regular 35mm slides: 
the corners would be out-of-focus.  My wife soon got a Valentine's 
Day present of a FF (flat field) lens.  The corners are now in 
focus but there is some vignetting with superslides (with the 
largest apertures) resulting in a darkening in the corners - not 
yet objectionable to me.  I've heard that the Wiko lenses are 
similar in their performance but that there are some expen$ive 
lenses which do not do this.

Hope this helps.