Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:55 PM 2/13/99 -0400, you wrote: >Tina: > >Today I have been cleaning off my desk by mounting some of the many rolls >of slides that just sat there as uncut strips. I remember you saying that >you use Pakon slide mounts for you negatives. I just got a case of them >and that is what I have been using. My manual mounter has not arrived yet >and I have just been cutting them by hand using scissors. I was wondering >what you used to mount with, a manual or automatic pakon mounter? >Regards, > >Robert Hi, Robert - I cut them with scissors and mount them by hand using the little black plastic mounter from Pakon (looks like a slide mount and only holds the end of the mount open to slide in the film). I have tried various automatic and manual slide mounters and they were all more trouble than they were worth. If everything is not lined up perfectly, you end up ruining slides. Some of the automatic ones cut the slide based on where the dark edge of the frame is. Since I take a lot of low light photos :-) my film always confused machines. I get very tired of cutting them up with scissors and mounting by hand (especially when I come back from a trip with 300 rolls of film!), but it seems to be the best and easiest way. Occasionally I can bribe one of my kids to do it for me, but then I have edit ahead of time anyway, marking out rejects. If you find an automatic mounter that actually works, please let me know!! Leically, Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.photogs.com/manley/index.html http://www.pomegranates.com/frame/manley/index.html http://members.tripod.com/~Tina_Manley/index.html