Re: Mounting techniques

[P3D Jim Crowell <crowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:16 PM -0800 3/25/97, P3D Gregory J. Wageman wrote:
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>I'd like to hear about other peoples' mounting techniques...
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>       -Greg W.

I cut the roll into strips & put them in a loose-leaf negative protector.
I mount one at a time from most to least interesting (in heat-seal mounts),
cutting out the two frames for the view I'm working on with scissors &
putting the remaining strips back in the loose-leaf, so I generally don't
have more than two individual chips floating around.  Determining right &
left is no problem, because I can easily free-view the chips.  I mount to
the window if there's anything near in the scene, roughly to infinity if
not.  I generally do 8-16 in a session (sticking the chips in place with
the little adhesive tabs that Reel 3D sells in handy dispensers) & then
seal them all with an iron.

The biggest problem I had starting out was learning film hygiene.  If you
don't keep all surfaces scrupulously clean the film chips act like little
dust magnets...

-Jim C.

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Jim Crowell
Division of Biology
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Caltech
Pasadena, CA
(818) 395-8337
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