Re: "Perfect" slide mounting?

[P3D Dr. George A. Themelis <DrT-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I'm sure you can learn to deal with all these problems, but why 
>bother? 

Because I am a masochist! :-)  And what is wrong with the silver tape???

>cardboard mounts are inherently dimensionally unstable...

Why is that so?  Why "inherently"?

>any show which is good 
>enough to be presented at NSA is certainly good enough to be presented at 
>other venues; therefore the question of whether or not it is "worth it to 
>remount 150 slides 'just' for an NSA presentation" doesn't really arise.

What are the "other venues" that are more demanding than an NSA projection?
If the owner of these slides is satisfied with their present state of
mounting I don't think he should be forced to remount them to a system
that he is does not presently use.  Somehow, mounting has not been a 
problem for me in previous NSA projections.  Subject matter and interest 
has been a problem (see discussions following NSA Rochester '96).

>The RBT projector is notoriously unforgiving for any but RBT mounts.    

Perhaps it should then be corrected (as the Brackett was "corrected" to
project cardboard-mounted slides).  Sounds more reasonable than forcing
us to remount all our glass-mounted slides to RBT mounts.  

What we need is a thinner and cheaper plastic mount, a good aluminum 
mount and a better cardboard slip-in mount...

--George Themelis, attendee, NSA-Rochester, '96


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