Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Over the weekend, I shot a roll of stereo slides with my Contaflex I. The film was E200, more than a year past its "use-by date" but, generally, refrigerated; the camera's shutter began to act up a bit. So, I had only a little hope to get many successful shots but figured I might have five or ten -- after all, this is simply a test roll to try out the Zeiss Ikon stereo-slide viewer I scored on e-Bay, so ultimate quality doesn't matter. I dropped the slide film off yesterday and asked them not to mount it. The clerk wrote "DO NOT MOUNT" in large letters on the bag and high-lighted it in yellow. (Stereo pairs have to be mounted with the two parts of the SAME picture in the SAME slide mount and, in any event, should be mounted in glass.) Yesterday afternoon, the clerk called me: the illiterati at the lab had mounted the slides BEFORE reading the instructions on the bag ... they offered to dupe the slides for me at no charge but I told them I'd wait to see what the mounted slides look like. I pick them up this afternoon. (One nice thing is that the roll of film was a complimentary one so, at the worst, I've lost a free roll of film and some time outside on a beautiful fall day.) Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html