Re: [photo-3d] Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!

[Ron Beck <rbeck@xxxxxxxx>]

Great photo Elliot.  Makes me want to cover my Kodak with jello
(...NOT!).

On another topic totally unrelated to the above subject, I finally found
a lab near work that does one-hour slide developing (actually 2+ hours
but that's okay!).  So, I broke down and finally took in four rolls. 
Three were Realist format and one was VM (my first!).  

First, my VM camera appears to work okay although it looks like there
might have been a bit of a light leak.  I'll have to check it more
carefully.  However, since I know it's working, I may be taking more VM
now.

Second, I normally send my slides to Kodak via our local Target store
because I wasn't charged the stereo slide mounting premium.  That
changed with the last roll I sent so I decided to try my hand at
mounting.  I picked up some heat seal mounts a while back to remount
slides that Kodak mounted backwards so I had everything I needed.  

Well, it wasn't too bad.  I managed to get a roll done in about 45
minutes actual working time (I have three kids, 6, 3, & 1 who sometimes
want to help :-) ).  I did realize about three slides into the second
roll that I was placing the chips in the mount backwards, that is
mounting to the big opening rather than the small opening.  So, once I
reversed my procedure, everything went quite smoothly.

My wife even helped with this project.  She has some double sided tape
for mounting photos to albums (from Creative Memories) which is archive
safe and in a little hand held dispenser.  The unique thing about this
tape is that it's made up of little bars of tape like this [[[[[[[[.  I
put a row of this on the side of my desk and then take a single bar and
place it on my mount.  Once I've aligned the chip, I press down on edge
of the chip and adhere it to my mount.  Then I can fold over and heat
seal my mount without the film chips moving.  And it works so much
better than the scotch tape I've used in the past.  So if you ever run
across a Creative Memories "party", I highly recommend the double sided
tape!

So, if anyone's been a bit shy on mounting their own slides, I say "Go
for it!".

Regards,
Ron