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

[David Motz <david.motz@xxxxxxx>]

 >As far as your method - how do you get alignment of the jig 
 >and 
Spicer mount when placed in the red button? Do you have 
 >the exposed 
film chip ends up which would butt both the jig 
 >and mount against the 
bottom of the viewer? How do you orient 
 >horizontally with the extra 
space in the viewer?


I'm not sure what you mean.  When I have the jig in the viewer the only 
thing I'm really checking in detail is the window placement.  I only check 
the crop in rough terms, to choose which mount to use.  I am not concerned 
with getting the crop fine tuned at this point.

Maybe I've made my jig a little different than yours.  I simply cut out 
the area immediately below the RBT openings, so the mount overall has the 
same dimensions.  I put the cut out side to the bottom but it still lines 
up with the spicer because the RBT jig is still full size.  I tape the 
chips on the open edge of the front side of the mount.

I guess I do remember seeing a jig on the net somewhere that had the whole 
long edge sliced off.  I didn't like that because I want to be able to 
butt either long edge against whatever was convenient to adjust the 
vertical.  If I want to raise the chips in the mount I use one or two 
thickness of a spicer mount against the straight lower edge of my light 
box.  If I want to lower the chips in relation to the mount I fold the 
back half of my mount up at a 90 degree angle and fit another mount at the 
top and align to the top edge of the jig.

For rough horizontal placement I just slide the spicer one way and slide 
the RBT the other way.  Or vice versa.  :-)  I fine tune the horizontal 
placement by hand on the light box.


 >> If I used a steal the light viewer on top of the RBT jig 
 >> I 
couldn't judge what the cropped image would look like 
 >> in reduced 
height, reduced width or 4 perf spicer mount.

 >Simply place the Spicer mount on top of the jig and look 
 >through the 
modified viewer. You can make all the critical
 >alignments you need because the entire jig and mount is 
 >exposed and 
easy to see (unlike having it hidden inside a 
 >viewer).

Oh, that sounds like a good idea.  I do have a radex steal the light 
viewer so I'll have to give that a try.  Any thoughts on how to separate 
the view halves?

Part of why I'm so slow at mounting is that I have to run around the house 
with the red button and my jig/mount sandwich and show the picture off to 
anyone I can force to look at it.  Sometimes I just look at them myself 
for 5 or 10 minutes before taping the mount together.

Before anyone takes offense, I see nothing wrong with the
stated method. I just think that the one I describe and teach
is much simpler and easier - which might not be the case for
everyone.

So, where do you describe and teach this method?  It sounds like I could 
learn a few new tricks.  Couldn't make it to Mesa though.  Something with 
pictures would be great, because trying to do it with words alone, as we 
have seen in this discussion, is awkward at best.

Thanks,

David


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