current Kodak mounting

[P3D <gosfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi

since the subject has now been re-opened:

I have had only three rolls of film mounted by Kodak Dallas within 
the last two months, and the quality was painfully bad.  At least 4 
slides were mounted pseudo.  Numerous slides were unviewable without 
discomfort due to being canted in opposite directions in the mount.  
Numerous slides were displaced in the vertical axis.

Given George's explanation of the mounting method, i can see a way that 
some of this might be my fault--If i tilted the camera, then slides might 
appear vertically misaligned. On all of these, however, i could properly 
remount them by hand, in Reel-3d paper mounts, which appear identical to 
the mounts currently used by Kodak Dallas.

Another problem might be that the film positioning in my Kodak and 3.5 
Realist is sufficiently inconsistent (we have all seen the variation in 
film spacing which occurs) that the position of the frame within the 
perforations varies, so that side to side position within the mount can 
not be successfully automated.

The tilting of slides within the mount remains 'inexcusable' as does 
mounting pseudo.  I have had variation in overall quality from roll to 
roll, which makes me think that there is some degree of operator effect.  
Perhaps the good operators go on vacation once in a while, or perhaps 
there is a 'monday morning effect' which occurs in slide mounting as 
well as automobile manufacture!

Anyway, i have given up on Kodak, and now mount myself.  I can't say i 
enjoy it anywhere near as much as George does, since it gives me a backache 
from hunching over to check the positioning with a 10x magnifier, and it 
is very tedious to have to keep taking my bifocals off/on so i can get close 
enough to look at the slides.  Obviously the $olution is to get some of 
those $urgeons's operating gla$$e$ with built in long di$tance magnifiers 
of about 3x.  a mere $300 or so. 

Or get rich and start using RBTs for everything.

ted
gosfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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