Definative Dale

[lasmart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

          Holy Moley! I posted a long treatise on using Dale Labs for
          stereo slide dupes several times over the years. Now, I've
          lost it!

          Anyway, in essence, Dale takes your roll of negs and (when
          you specify) returns an uncut roll of positive slides that
          you can cut and mount as you wish. (Seattle Labs don't
          return uncut slide rolls).

         -Positives (er, good points about Dale Labs):

         You can make as many dupe rolls as you wish, IF you preserve
          the neg. roll - uncut and untorn.



         Only $7 or $8 per roll.

         Can send in any format.

          -Negatives (er, not so positives):

          They use their Eastman Movie film for the Dupes (don't
          expect it to last as long as good E-6 or Kodachrome).
          Grain could pass for standard ASA 200 slide film. Shoot w/
          Royal Gold (Ektar) 25 for sharpest results. Their own neg.
          film they offer you to shoot with is WAY too fast and
          grainy.

          Possible slight yellowish tone (its a "feature.") They can
          adjust color for "sports" (indoor) shots when requested.

          Exposure problems when using less than 8 sprocket width
          images. The machine automatically exposes and prints the
          positive 1 full frame at a time (like making prints). They
          advertise this as a way to make slides with more exposure
          latitude (by shooting them on neg. film first). VM rolls
          have A LOT of black borders in them, so request an "average"
          overall exposure for the particular film speed you used.
          Without "averaging," Realist 5p slide pairs can also be
          exposed funkily, because each auto exposure overlaps
          one-and-one-half frame at a time.

          LS


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