moi apre le deluge

[P3D charlie hotchkiss <revchas@xxxxxxxx>]

Excuse the scrambled quotation and the execrable French, but this is
about prints, slides and a lot of water.  And maybe a solution for those
who want multiple copies of their slides.

I just got finished mounting four rolls of slides that I took during the
week I was trapped in the house by the recent Ohio River Flooding.  Some
of them are amusing, some are dramatic (like a double-wide trailer
floating across the front yard, and the water lapping at the porch steps,
where it crested).  

I was scrapping the bottom of the barrel to find rolls of film for me and
for a neighbor whose boat was our only contact with the outside.  My
slides were shot on a roll of Kodak Gold 100,  a roll of Kodak Gold  200,
a 200 speed roll of Winn Dixie (3M, I think) and an old roll of Seattle
Filmworks 400.  I sent them off to Dale Labs for negative processing and
subsequent printing as slides.  

I've used Dale many times, but this time the results were amazing.  Even
the Winn Dixie film looks good.  I over-exposed some of the Seattle film,
but that was entirely my fault.  The best part is that toward the end of
my marathon mounting session I ruined a couple of film chips, but, Having
negatives, all I have to do is have them re-printed.
There is always some discussion about the relative merits of stereo
slides and prints. I began with prints, but when I started projecting
slides I liked that too.  So I decided long ago to do both at the same
time  and I've been happy with he results.  My usual procedure is to get
the film developed a  friendly lab that makes prints for me , then, if I
see potential or good slides, I send the roll off to Dale and, for $5.00
they send back an unmounted film strip.  The important thing is that the
negative strip be uncut, if it is cut the cost at Dale is much higher.

As to permanence...who knows?  I've got slides that Dale made for me in
1972 that have been projected frequently and still look great.  The
pictures will  out last me,sing the services of Dale Labs in Florida.  
Anyway, I use Kodak Gold  a lot and wasn't it Robert Frost who said,
"Nothing gold can stay..."?

I want to stress that I don't mean this as a plug for Dale.  I have no
connection with them, I pay them for everything I get from them.  But I
am a satisfied customer.
And Lord knows I'm not plugging Winn-Dixie (They go by the name
"Thriftway" here abouts and they drive me nuts).

Charlie Hotchkiss
Director General
Rabbit Hash, KY Stereo Photography Club


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