Re: [photo-3d] Labs, mounting slides, and film

["Grant C. Campos" <gccampos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Great email, Joel.  I have rolls and rolls of film
and have been thinking of sending it out for
someone else to mount, but now that I'm getting
the SAM, I'm sure I'll be mounting them all
myself. I have learned a lot by experience too.

It seems a normal progression is to get a Kodak or
Realist and have Kodak mount your stuff, or get
slip in mounts, and look at your stuff through a
$3 plastic viewer.  Then you get a Kodaslide or
Realist viewer and at some time have it
Themelized, and then after experimenting with
different films, you find that ASA 100 or Velvia
or now Fuji ProviaF 100F has much less grain. 
Then you have your fist slides projected and you
realize that you need to learn more about mounting
and that the Kodak mounted slides or slip in
mounted slides take too much adjusting and give
you a headache.  You then figure out a way to
mount them more accurately.  Then you may succumb
to the sharpness and "wider is better" pull, and
experiment with two full frame cameras.
Now you've really got the bug when you get your
own projector and start hunting for the bigger
screen and shorter lenses.  You may decide to go
2X2 and run with the Ektagraphics.  You then my
sell your soul for an RBT or even go further and
get twin Hassleblad's or other medium format
stuff.

To answer your question, I would suggest you try
Fuji Provia 100f or any ASA 100 or better slide
film and see what you think.  It depends on what
kind of viewer you have, but even with the $3 I
think you'll see the difference.  You might try
going in with someone and get a shipment from B&H
or get some of Paul Talbot's old cold rolled
Velvia for a real big savings.  I've seen Scala
projected (just last Saturday, Greg Perez in the
Puget Sound Stereo Camera Club showed some
beautiful shots of the Lakewald garden's to
prepare us for our field trip in JUne).  One thing
about Scala is that it might depolarize the light,
so you might have to make sure you don't project
it in a projector that polarizes the light before
it goes through the slide.

Grant

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