P3D Re: How to salvage mounted V-M film

[michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Kersenbrock)]

> How to salvage a mounted roll of View-Master film.
> 
> Some of you may have experienced that sinking feeling upon opening 
> that little yellow box, and instead of finding a tightly wound 
> roll of developed film, discovered that our friends at Qualex have 
> mounted your View-Master film in standard 2X2 inch mounts, 4 

Thanks for your chilling story with the happy ending.

Yesterday, I got back my very first roll of film taken with
my "new" VM camera (mostly "test shots" of my house, cats, etc) .
Last night I mounted my first VM (using the mounting tool sold
to me by a member of P3D, thanks!).  Went in easy and slick as a
whistle.  Doesn't have the visual impact of say, a 7P FED slide, but
it's neat to make my own viewmaster reel!

Glad your chilling story didn't come a day earlier -- before I
got my film back.  My anxiety level was high enough just wondering
if the camera works or not (it seems to although there appears to
be some vignetting which might be masked off when it gets mounted,
not sure yet, only mounted a few images that I'd want to "keep").

Electronic Flash sync seems to work okay too (I made my own electronic
flash adapter from a Sawyer's flash unit -- not as tidy as the adapter
Dalia sells, but was about one quarter the price and works fine :-).

I wonder if the previous owner had the sync "modified" or if the late
production units (black w/serial number over 21,000) changed to
being x-sync compatible?

Mike K.


P.S. - I've only had them mount-against-my-wishes beamsplitter
       stereo film.  One time each side wasn't of the same image.  :-(
       I haven't sent it to Kodak though.  Local shop that sends
       out locally (Portland) for E-6 and there in Seattle somewhere for
       Kodachrome.



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