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

["David W. Kesner" <drdave@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David Motz writes:

> 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.

Yes, this is different than I do. And both of us are different 
from what Paul Talbot does (and offers through RMM). 

> I guess I do remember seeing a jig on the net somewhere that had the whole 
> long edge sliced off.

This is what I do. Paul cuts from under the window aperture to 
the edge of the RBT leaving the middle in place. You cut only 
under the aperture and leave both the edges and the middle. 
All these will work just fine and each have there goog and 
less than good points - but they are minor and matter 
differently to each individual.

> 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?

It is real easy as the two halves are just glued or heat 
sealed together. Just use a dull knife and pry apart.

> 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.

When I say I "can" mount a roll in 30 minutes that doesn't 
mean I "do". Like you I just can't not look at my images when 
I place them in the viewer for the first time. In all reality 
it takes from an hour to two hours to do a roll depending on 
how good my photography was on that roll *{;-)

> 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.

I have uploaded the handout I did for the mounting workshop 
Dr. T. and I did at Mesa to files section. It is called 
<Mounting Workshop.doc> and is a MSWord document with images 
so it is rather large at about 1 meg. This was never meant to 
be a stand alone guide, but it should help clarify some points.

I am in the process of working with Paul Talbot on making a 
video/CD mounting tutorial. There may even be some web 
involvement - possibly even a live web cam demo. This is going 
to take some time, but should be available before next summer. 
If anyone would like to contribute or help on this project, 
please conntact Paul or me.

That's all for now,

David W. Kesner
Boise, Idaho, USA
drdave@xxxxxxxxxx