Re: Video on mounting slides?

[P3D Gregory J. Wageman <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dr. T. offers:

>My problem is that such video will be very short.  About 10 seconds
>to be exact.  Here are the film chips here is the mount, you see, I
>stick the chips in the mount.  If I stretch it a bit with slow motions
>close-ups, replays, etc., it might last one minute.  That's about it.

Oh, come now, Dr. T., you're not using your imagination.

Possible subjects:

0. What is a "light box" and why do you need one?

1. Survey of available mounts (slip in, various brands of metal masks,
   heat-seal, separate 2x2 glassed and glassless mounts, what is
   "Anti-Newton" glass, etc.)

2. Advantages and disadavantages of each.

3. Demonstration of "adjusting the window" using e.g. Albion masks.

4. Explanation of an "alignment guage", what is it and how it is used.

5. "Mounting to infinity" vs. "Mounting to the window".

6. Various ways of binding a metal mask (cardboard foldovers, glass,
   plastic sleeves) along with suggested materials for sealing.

7. Demonstration of various kinds of mounting errors (rotational,
   vertical misalignment, excessive separation of homologous infinity
   points, pseudo-stereo), how to recognize and avoid/repair.

8. Viewing options, from $3 steal-the-light to your top-of-the-line
   $$$ "Themelized Cadillac (tm)" viewer. :-)

9. Projection options: vintage (e.g. TDC), modern (e.g. RBT, Brackett),
   alternative (e.g. twinned 2x2 projectors).

The above could easily run a half-hour at least, while remaining
informative and entertaining.  The only problem with it would be that
it isn't in 3-D!

	-Greg


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