format/mounting questions

[P3D <gosfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi all

question 1) ?comparative experience with the RMM cardboard mounts vs
Reel-3d cardboard mounts for Realist format pairs.  I don't like the
cardboard 'slip in' Reel-3d mounts much.  The idea is nice, but the
execution isn't.  The RMM cardboard mounts seem free of 'fuzzies'.  How
are the reel-3d ones? I know that Albion aluminum mounts would be better
than any cardboard, but i need something for the 'less than A+ quality'
shots that i still want to keep. 

question B) i have been doing some 35mm slide bar work, and would like to 
figure a way to view them in my Dr. T. modified Kodaslide II (soon to 
arrive, i hope) viewer.  Has anyone tried using the European 'Extra-Wide' 
31.5x23mm mounts for full frame 35mm transparencies, sacrificing the 
required amount of space at the side?  Or the RBT "full frame" mount$ ?

question III) what is the perceptual change from viewing slides made with 
a 55mm lens on full frame 35mm film, when mounted as Euro 'Extra Wide' 
pairs and viewed in a Kodaslide II (i don't know the FL of the viewing 
lenses).  I figure that in close up work i should lose some film width 
anyway, due to non-identical coverage in each picture.  But i don't know 
what the perspective change would be given the FL of the viewer lenses vs 
the FL of the taking lenses.  The viewer was designed for roughly 35mm 
taking lenses, i assume.  Does the view just appear closer when 
(infinity subject distance) images shot with a longer FL are used? 

ted
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