Market for MF slides

[Greg Erker <erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again,

  Elliott's posting on sell-3d, lookin for
fireworks slides and telling Bill Bell that
I'd take a couple of local photos for him
(to repay a favor) got me thinking about
shooting for money.

  Since there's no 120 or 220 duping film
you have to shoot in-camera dupes. So, take
6 duplicates shots with the Sputnik. One to
keep and five to sell. Materials cost about
$20 CDN per roll (film, processing, mounts,
silver tape).

  So, what price to charge? Boris gets $5
per slide pair ($50 for a set of 10) with
lots of cagoling (sp?) on the sell 3d list.

  I don't do nudies or computer graphics
but a (very) limited edition MF slide should
be worth at least that much. There are a number
of Don Lopp and Sam Smith slides I'd pay $10 or
$15 US for (just to give two examples).

  Or one could sell an unmounted pair for $5
and mounted for $10 since it's quite labour
intensive the way I do it.

  Another approach is to do the APEC thing
run by (I think) Dan Shelley. Get six people
who want to take and receive slides. Each
always shoots 6 shots of a scene (rules out
many types of people photos though) and then
sends them to the other 5 and receives 5 different
original images to keep.

  Or a coordinator could receive all the slides
and then disperse them. You would have to decide
whether everyone was going to send in mounted slides
or strips.

  Six people max means that you don't have to
change rolls and then take more photos of the
same scene (assuming your camera is reliable).

Just some "got up too early" thoughts - Greg