P3D Re: Mounting a 40mm/40mm Super slide

[Brian Reynolds <reynolds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bill wrote:
> Could someone briefly explain to me whats involved in mounting a 40 x 40
> super slide.I'm assuming that the slide will have to be cut down to fit
> in the mount.Do the mounts have any index marks for aligning either
> horizontally or vertically or is this done by eye.Are the mounts heat
> sealed?
> 

Although I guess you would have to cut down the super slides to fit a
35mm mount (either 2x2x2 or 101x41 (did I get that right?)) there is
another option.  You could mount the super slides in Medium Format
mounts with the proper mask.  MF stereo mounts are available from
Rocky Mountain Memories (see <URL:http://www.frii.com/~rkymtmem/>) in
6x4.5 (both portrait and landscape with 40mm x 50mm openings), 6x6
(50mm x 50mm openings) and Panoramic (52mm x 23mm).  These are
cardboard foldover mounts that you tape the slides to and then tape
close.  The mounts come with a clear plastic mounting guide that makes
mounting pretty easy.  You'd have to make the masks yourself.  Rocky
Mountain Memories also sells the Saturn Slide MF viewer kit that uses
these mounts.

I know this may not seem like an answer for people working with 35mm,
but it just seems a shame to cut down a slide.

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