Re: Mounting

[P3D Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Is it true that most everyone agrees that the RBT mount is the
> simplest and easiest to use and that cost is the only draw back? If
> they were to cost pennies each then NO ONE should have a reason to
> NOT mount their own slides, right? Well, mounting in Spicer mounts
> with the RBT as a jig is almost as easy and very cheap.j

For anyone with at least a little experience, I quite agree that
mounting one's self can be "the thing to do".  However for someone
new who used to just "open the envelope" that they got from
the photo counter at the store, even RBT's can be quite a chore.
Just figuring out which chip is which and which direction-it-is
can be "interesting" with the Realist format -- the first time.

Having something like a "good-Kodak" that essentially does the
mounting for $4  would ideally be the "thing to do" for one
still figuring out the camera and what-the-heck a f-stop is
(point-and-shooters need not have a clue nowdays).

How does using a "Spenser-jig" compare with a RBT-jig
insofar as ease of use, accuracy, speed, etc?

Mike K.


P.S. - One reason to "favor" 7P is that figuring out which image
       is which is easier, and one can stop cutting in the
       middle w/o getting confused again when restarting the
       cutting process.... but maybe it's only me that gets 
       confused. :-)




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