Re: Close-up mounts for Realist format users (fwd)

[John Dukes <dukes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 95 14:29:43 EST
> From: Morris M. Keesan <keesan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: 3D Photo mailing list <photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Close-up mounts for Realist format users
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> Jon Golden writes:
> >Perhaps many do
> >not realize that the Nimslo 4-perf mount is also known as the Realist
> >ultra-close up, although  EMDE, RBT, ALBION and other slide manufacturers
> >have varying specs for their 4 perf offerings.
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> My problem with the 4-perf mounts meant for Nimslo is that the height of the
> opening is very reduced.  I've been able to use the Nimslo-format mounts for
> some ultra-closeup purposes, but usually what I end up doing when I need to
> adjust my window that much is cut out part of an Emde or Albion aluminum mask
> and use it to reduce the width of the opening -- e.g. I split an Emde mount in
> two, throw away the back half, cut a little bit off the ends, leaving the two
> apertures at their factory-set separation, and put it over the film chips in
> another mount, sliding this mask sleightly to the left or right to reduce the
> width.  Someone, probably Jon, told me about using an aluminum mask in this
> way to reduce the width of the windows in an RBT mount, but I haven't tried
> that yet.
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> Morris M. Keesan  --  keesan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Morris--
The same reason you don't like 'em I love 'em!  One of my personal 
frustrations with stereo photography, Realist format, is the difficulty
of masking off portions of the picture which the picture would be
better off without.  (If I weren't such a lousy typist I might rewrite
that sentence.) The Nimslo mask, perhaps alone among masks that I 
know, allows a bit of vertical editing.  And it's remarkable how
often the composition can be improved with a bit of masking. The
alternative for me is cutting up two aluminum masks and fiddling,
and readjusting, and fiddling and finally after taping discovering
that something has slipped and I need to start again.

(If anyone has surplus Nimslo aluminum masks, let me know!)


John Dukes
dukes@xxxxxxxxxx




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