35mm Slide Mounting

Duceman · Dec 14, 2021

I'm looking to mount some of my 35mm chrome stills for slide presentation. How does one go about doing this? Are there any kits available? Or does one simply buy the little plastic mounts, cut each shot to fit, and then snap them in?

As you can tell, I've never done this before. All the slides I currently have were mounted at the lab. But I've got a lot of chrome shots that I've developed myself and would like to mount them for viewing.

Sirius Glass · Dec 14, 2021

I was never crazy about heating the cardboard with an iron and I ended up using tape, masks and paper tape for many decades.

bdial · Dec 14, 2021

The plastic snap together mounts are a little easier to deal with for non-automated use. I don’t know if they are still available though.
You’ve outlined the process pretty well.

mshchem · Dec 15, 2021

Plastic mounts. I believe that Matin based in Korea still makes mounts and a trimmer. In the good old days Gepe was my favorite. I still have a press and mounts. I still mount 35mm and 6x6 slides.

AgX · Dec 15, 2021

For mounting with an aid you need mounts and aid that are designed for each other.
This goes from half-automated where on still has to handle an aid up to machines that without help turn a filmstrip into several slides.

Manually you can use nearly all mounts.

This all became very academic as from countless basic designs of mounts only very few are still offered....

AgX · Dec 15, 2021

In Europe neither half- or fully-automated mounting aids are still produced.

miha · Dec 15, 2021

This one I would regard as half-automated mounter, readily available (might be old stock though) https://reflecta.de/en/100-cs2-slide-mounter and: https://braun-germany.de/de/dia-rahmungsgeraet/319-paximat-automount-dia-rahmungsgeraet.html

AgX · Dec 15, 2021

Both are old stock made by Kaiser, who themselves even no longer offer it.

The apparatus needs dedicated, slim mounts, that for their thinness not all projectors may take.

perkeleellinen · Dec 15, 2021

I recommend the hinged mounts used in the C.A.M System (I buy Reflecta on ebay) that miha linked to, above. I also have that cutter which is useful for getting a square cut and it has a light which helps. There's loads of new old stock on ebay, you're spoilt for choice.

AgX · Dec 15, 2021

Sirius Glass said:
I was never crazy about heating the cardboard with an iron and I ended up using tape, masks and paper tape for many decades.

I get your point.
Over here slide mounting started the same way, hough using in addition glass panes. However in the fifties plastic mounts took over and I think by the end of the sixties those panes, tapes and masks have vanished out of catalogs.

Bikerider · Dec 15, 2021

AgX said:
In Europe neither half- or fully-automated mounting aids are still produced.

Thee is a company in UK called -FIRSTCALL who have slide mounting kits and the device for doing so for sale at £52. (I would think about $73 plus shipping. Sold under the name of 'AP'. If you google Firstcall Photographic you should be able to find them. In fact there is not a great deal they don't sell!

AgX · Dec 15, 2021

AP is the brand of a spanish manufacturer of photographic devices and consumables. They even do not list such mounting device anymore.
The AP branded mounting device is identical to the Kaiser one. AP and Kaiser, both manufacturers on same field, exchanged some products.

Anyway, all what is offered is old stock. This applies actually on most things slide projection related...

Wallendo · Dec 15, 2021

I have an AP mounter purchased from Freestyle Photo. Unfortunately, Freestyle is currently out of the mounts required for it's use. The instructions were poorly written, but once I figured it out, it works great.

Even without the mounts it requires, it is still useful for precisely cutting the film to be placed in other mounts.

Bronson Dugnutt · Dec 15, 2021

Matin's 2-piece snap together mounts are pretty good in my experience and are available in 135 and various 120 ratios (no 16mm, unfortunately). I use a simple guillotine w/ a roller advance and frame markings, illuminated on a light table, to chop the frames. Rarely do I actually mount more than a few frame per roll so a fully manual process isn't too onerous. Chop it, drop it, snap it... something like that

Reversal film is especially difficult to appreciate digitally but quite stunning when experienced directly, so good luck in your undertaking.

Duceman · Dec 15, 2021

Bronson Dugnutt said:
Reversal film is especially difficult to appreciate digitally but quite stunning when experienced directly, so good luck in your undertaking.

This is the primary motive behind my inquiry..... many shots that look good on the light board, but don't turn out all that great scanning.

Alan Edward Klein · Dec 15, 2021

Bronson Dugnutt said:
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Reversal film is especially difficult to appreciate digitally but quite stunning when experienced directly, so good luck in your undertaking.

I don't know about that.
Velvia: https://www.flickr.com/search/?sort...1&tags=velvia&user_id=55760757@N05&view_all=1

Bronson Dugnutt · Dec 15, 2021

Alan Edward Klein said:
I don't know about that.

What, no stereo?

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35mm Slide Mounting

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