Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Kodachrome
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:06:00 -0800
References: <200011270919.KAA24558@bird2.de.uu.net> <f05010406b647ed9e90a5@[195.64.100.180]>

Christer Almqvist wrote:
> 
> Mark,
> 
> when I used to shoot slides I was really satisfied if I got a couple
> of good ones out of the 36, the rest was for the wastebin. Having
> said that, I still found it very difficult to throw away mounted
> slides, even the ones I considered worthless . With unmounted slides
> life was much easier. The less you mounted the less work. That made
> you think twice before mounting. And I had no difficulty in getting
> rid of what had not been mounted. Amazingly I still have thousands of
> slides nicely filed away, but then some are 40 years old. Imagine how
> many I would have had if they had come mounted. No room for my b+w
> darkroom then  ;-)
> 
> Chris
> 
Is it a lot cheaper?

Cant' you just throw the slides you don't like out?

I kinda like the Kodak cardboard mounts!

mark

In reply to: Message from "Tim Spragens" <info@borderless-photos.com> (Re: [Leica] Re: Kodachrome)
Message from Christer Almqvist <christer@almqvist.net> (Re: [Leica] Re: Kodachrome)