P3D Re: Archival Storage

[Paul Talbot <ptww@xxxxxxxxx>]

Brad Richmond wrote:

> Here is an archival Realist format storage method that I like.
> 
> - Archival pages for stereo slides sold by Paul Talbot.

Thanks for saying so, Brad!  You are not alone, by the way.  I have
received quite a lot of enthusiastic praise for these pages.

> (Paul suggests you can put more
> paper or Albion mounts if you stack them

Well, I don't make a habit of suggesting that.  In a moment of idle
speculation, the idea may have come up.  ;)  Actually, I have on
occasion put more than one slide in a pocket--when mailing slides
in a private exhcange I have doubled up cardboard mounted slides in
one or more pockets to reduce the number of pages to be mailed.

Here's another tip for those using the pages to mail slides:  if you
are mailing 20-40 slides, depending on the mounts used, they should
fit nicely in the free Priority Mail letter-size (cardboard) mailers.
One mistake I recently made was to put the slides in a larger mailing
enclosure without first securing them in a snug fitting envelope.  A
couple days of jostling at the hands of the US Post Office was a bit
too much, and the slides did get scattered.  Normally the pages hold
the slides quite securely--in fact, you can hold a page full of slides
upside-down without the slides falling out.

> but I prefer one slide per slot
> so I can view the entire page)

Me too!  It's great for browsing your collection of slides to
choose ones to pull out to show off, enter in a competition, or
to put together a slide show.  If you are especially organized, you
can use a coding system, like diffferent colored dots, different
numbers of dots, or codes (letters or numbers) written on the
stick-on orientation dot to categorize your slides into, say,
A, B, C, etc. grades (or A+, A, and A-, etc. depending on your
talent level!).  Then it is easy to flip through your collection
of slides and pull out, say, just the A+ slides for a quickie show,
or the A and B slides for a longer show.

> - "True Core Binder Box" from Light Impressions. This is an archival,
> light-tight box with standard 1 1/2" three ring binders. The boxes cost
> $10.95 - $8.75 depending upon the number ordered. #9254

Thanks for that tip.  I haven't yet made the commitment to that level
of "archivalness."  Perhaps I will someday.  For now I am operating
on something of an "80 gets you 20" philosophy, keeping the slides in
the archival pages and the pages in a regular 3-ring binder, or a
cardboard box.

> "Long live archival storage"  #8-)

Hey, great line, Brad!  Can I adopt it??  ;-)

Purchase information for my exclusive PT Pages can be found on
Sell-3D.  I also expect to have sample packs available at NSA
Richmond, thanks to a friendly, helpful list member! (I won't
be there myself.)

Paul Talbot


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