P3D Re: Portrait oriented 41x101 slide mounts

["Ray Moxom" <raymoxom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Following Grant Campos suggestion for a "Portrait Spicer Mount"

In P3D-3329Dr T said:

>I doubt that Spicer would create dies for a new mount, unless if
>it was a good demand for it.

and Steve Spicer (yes, the chap who makes those Spicer mounts) said:

>Would you like to just clarify this for me? What aperture sizes are we
>talking about here? (Recall that Normal Realist is 21.5x23, CloseUp is
>19x23, and the 4-Perf or Nimslo are 16x21). What size would the portrait
>mount you mention need to be?

I thought that you might all be interested that Allan Griffin Hon PSA, FPSA,
etc put on a Macro show at our Sydney Stereo Camera Club May meeting and
most of the slide mounts were well above normal height. I think that he said
they had been cut out to 28mm high. They would have been about 22 to 23mm
wide.

For those stereo workers who use their twin rigs in back to back mode these
would be great. In the Southern Cross International such slides are often
entered as 2x2x2s rather than in 41x101 slide mounts to overcome the 41 x
101 height limitations. This allows the exhibitor to enter larger than
Realist size "portrait" slides.

As projection does not seem to be a problem, there may well be a limited
application for such a mount. It may also overcome a problem that some
exhibitors have when the salon does not accept 2x2x2 mounts.

If you do decide to make some 23mm wide by 26mm or 28mm high mounts Steve,
put me down for a couple of packs.

Ray Moxom






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