Re: PHOTO-3D digest 2292 -Reply

[P3D Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Regarding the comments from Michael
> Kersenbrock: So, you spend the money to buy
> a PK36 Eastman Kodak Mailer, add an
> additional $4.20, and send in the roll where it is
> processed, where they can be on the "Sloppy
> Side" and "Quality Can Vary", and then you
> get to tear apart the stereo slides and remount
> them? ---WOW What a great deal.

"Processing only" saves only the $4.20 which essentially
is the stereo-mounting charge -- about 15 cents per slide
pair.

Vast majority will be perfectly okay using a viewer, 
even the "sloppy ones".  If you don't project it
won't matter too much.  As I've said before, viewers
seem to allow quite a large margin of error in mounting.

Even the throw-aways get mounted too!  No need for a
fancy previewer -- one might consider Kodak's service
to be a previewer-service using paper-mounts.  :-)

Only among those that one wants to project might one
need to remount.  Certainly if one has a number of images
of one subject, one might only project the best of the group
and if that slide is too sloppy, then remount it.  How
often this is needed is variable, and because one has
a really good "preview system" (the Kodak mounting) it
may be less work overall -- depending what one's yield
of projection-remounts one has in their own work.  The
Kodak mounting is cheap, and the mounts have been easy
to take apart (so far).

> BOBBO'S ADVICE: Have Kodak process the
> Kodachrome and mount it yourself. 

I've been doing that for the last year or so, but part
of the "sloppyness" I mentioned may still apply.  Part of
the sloppyness is what looks like processing scratches.
Not often but I've had some -- usually on the best image. :-(

This method also seems to take the longest to mount. As
long as 6 months or longer sometimes.  :-(

Last night I installed a new large work-table in my new big
hobby-room so mount-myself's may get to be a LOT faster
soon.  Finally.  :-)

I think Kodak's service is a *vital* link to getting people
started in Realist-format stereo!  Getting people to *start*
with Realist-style cameras *and* having to mount their own
very first roll may be a bit much to get them over the initial
hump.  Because beginners probably don't have a
projector (I was perhaps an exception -- I sort-of bought 
the projector before a realist camera by a few minutes)  
the Kodak service will work well enough for the new user to 
love the results.

Mike K.


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