[photo-3d] heat seal vs spicer vs rbt

[David Motz <david.motz@xxxxxxx>]

When I'm mounting in Spicers with an RBT jig I place the chips face down 
on the front side of the mount and place the mount and jig in my red 
button before I tape the chips down.  That way I can view the final 
product and evaluate the cropping before taping things down.  Sometime I 
do this with two or three different sizes of mounts just to decide on the 
best crop.  The jig and chips can also be moved around on a light box to 
adjust the final crop.  I find it very to be very convenient, but I won't 
win any speed records for mounting...

 >I started with spicers, then tried heat seals, then RBTs.  And IMHO 
the >RBTs win hands down.  Yes, I was using a jig with the paper 
mounts.  I >find that I'm too picky about good alignment to just slap the 
chips in and >seal shut. But I still found many instances where the chips 
could use a >bit of vertical realignment, or where I saw afterward that 
the pair could >have been composed better by slipping both chips one 
direction or the >other (to better center the primary subject or to pick 
up some detail near >an edge).  But with the cardboards, I've taped it 
down already; so now I >have to pull the tape off the chips (and usually 
some paper comes with the >tape when it's separated from the mount), then 
start all over.  What a >pain!  With RBTs, I don't even have to put the 
top half on to view the



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