P3D 2x2x2 Tips

[jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gabriel Jacob)]

Boris writes,
>I prefer to get my slides developed at a local lab. It's a
>little bit more costly (2x actually), but I don't have to send
>my film through the mail, I don't have to wait two weeks (I
>receive them back same day), and I get them in plastic mounts
>that are easily broken open. This last is important, because
>it allows for easy vertical "remounting" of the film chips
>that is sometimes needed. The cardboard mounts cannot be
>openend with destruction of the mount.

I am not sure if the ones you get are the same mounts that they
use over here. My film processor uses the PAKON plastic mounts.
The neat thing about them is that there is a "secret opening".
On the side opposite edge from the hinged end there is a slit.
>From there it is quite easy to remove the film and to reinsert
it. It's also easy to mount for the stereo window. Of course
if you have to remount for vertical alignment then you have to
break it open, which is quite easy (the opening part) as you mention. 

A tip on saving some money when getting slides copied to Kodak
CD is to ask for the mounts when developing the film.
Since it is much cheaper to copy a whole roll of slide film onto
Kodak CD as opposed to individual 2x2 mounts, you have to ask
the film processor to return the developed slide film uncut and
consequently unmounted. When you do this, you might or might not
get the mounts that normally would have been used. If they don't
include them, you get stuck having to buy mounts for which you
already paid for. Therefore I always ask them to include these
mounts (which invariably are given to me sealed) and it is a
simple matter to cut and reinsert the slide film into the mounts
after I get them back from the Kodak CD processor.

Gabriel


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