E6 on 35mm - Mounted slides in 2021?

[Joseph Bell]

Hello fine people!

I was wondering if any of you have your 35mm E6 film mounted? Am I absolutely bonkers to be craving the mounted slides I used to get back when I first fell in love with photography? Please bear in mind that I have no intention of using a slide projector. Even as I type this, I am beginning to feel that this might be a ludicrous and wasteful thread I'm starting? I am perhaps a victim of misplaced nostalgia? But in earnest I will ask: do any of you transparency shooters have your slides mounted in this year of 2021? Why or why not?

Sincere thanks for your consideration! I eagerly await your rebukes, etc!

Joseph

 

[AgX]

To my understanding "slides" are already mounted....

No, transparency film I have not mounted, as I mount myself.

 

[cjbecker]

Yep. The only 35mm I use is e100 and always have it mounted. I have all my e6 done threw agx imaging in michigan. We really enjoy projecting them.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

Here ya go.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/106956-REG/Pic_RM10_35mm_Heat_Seal_Cardboard.html

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

Here's some more.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Slide-Projectors-Accessories/ci/1495/N/3725044791

 

[Kino]

Mount my own and I DO project them...

 

[Anon Ymous]

Mount my own and I DO project them...

So do I. They look very nice on a light table, but they're meant to be projected, they look fabulous.

 

[Kino]

If you don't want to mount them, get a Carousel filmstrip adapter and show the roll uncut.

 

[MattKing]

If you are not going to project the transparencies, the only reason to mount them is to make them easier to handle when you are viewing them with others.
I put mine into negative/transparency holder sheets, decide which ones I want to project, and then mount those.

 

[Joseph Bell]

Here's some more.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Slide-Projectors-Accessories/ci/1495/N/3725044791

Thank you Alan, that's terrific. It had not occurred to me to mount my own, what a great idea.

 

[Joseph Bell]

Mount my own and I DO project them...

As you should! As we all should! I hope to get there someday!

 

[MattKing]

If you don't want to mount them, get a Carousel filmstrip adapter and show the roll uncut.

Don't those project what is essentially a half frame image?

 

[Chan Tran]

I shoot slides to project and thus I want them mounted. I don't scan the slides. If I intend to scan I use negative films.

 

[Joseph Bell]

If you are not going to project the transparencies, the only reason to mount them is to make them easier to handle when you are viewing them with others.
I put mine into negative/transparency holder sheets, decide which ones I want to project, and then mount those.

Thank you Matt, that makes a lot of sense. I certainly haven't ruled out the idea of projecting them if/when I move into a non-hovel, but for now I am just looking at them on a light table and scanning them here and there. I've had some strange slide-related dreams lately, no jokes - I keep dreaming of having and holding slides just like I did when I was a young man. Upon waking, I was suddenly overtaken by a strange visceral desire to have and hold and look through mounted transparencies again. I suppose this is one of those dreams that is easy of achievement! Do you use a machine to help you mount the transparencies, or do you just do it by hand? Sincere thanks!

 

[MattKing]

Do you use a machine to help you mount the transparencies, or do you just do it by hand? Sincere thanks!

I have a Gepe hand slide mounting presses for medium format and, I believe, 35mm as well.
I say "I believe" because I usually do the 35mm slides manually by hand.
The presses are handy though: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/20530-REG/Gepe_458001_Hand_Mounting_Press.html

 

[Kino]

Don't those project what is essentially a half frame image?

You might be right; I've only seen them in catalogs and ads. Hmmm. Half frame slides....

 

[AgX]

Don't those project what is essentially a half frame image?

All film-strip attachments I know project full-frame, though only in horizontal mode.
The manual of that Kodak attachment for the Carousel-S projector states "35mm single frame" what I read as full-frame. It projects in vertical mode, but likely may be set to horizontal mode too (the projector handgrip might form an issue then).

 

[cmacd123]

All film-strip attachments I know project full-frame, though only in horizontal mode.
The manual of that Kodak attachment for the Carousel-S projector states "35mm single frame" what I read as full-frame. .

back in the 1950s and 60s, filmstrips were a popular media for educational uses. they typically used "academy" format images (18X24mm) (same as early silent Movies) reproduced using Motion Picture techniques. thus single frame (no sound track) images.sometimes they came with a record or tape with a "Beep" to advance to the next frame. Somewhere in my Junk collection I have a Viewlex film strip projector..

as far as slides, the lab I use wants 10 dollars Canadian to mount them, and my cheepskate side means that I mount mine myself.

 

[MattKing]

"Single frame" could also refer to standard filmstrips, which have the image horizontal across the film.
Any standard 35mm film that feeds from top to bottom will project horizontal images turned sideways. Vertical images would be right side up (if the camera was turned in one way), but they probably would be cut off at the top and/or the bottom, unless the film gate is particularly large and flexible.
The 35mm film would need to feed from side to side in order to project horizontal images right side up. And of course in that case, vertical images would be turned sideways.

 

[AgX]

back in the 1950s and 60s, filmstrips were a popular media for educational uses. they typically used "academy" format images (18X24mm) (same as early silent Movies) reproduced using Motion Picture techniques.

As said all film-strip attachments for still projection (typically educational) I know, are full format. However, except for that one Kodak attachment, I do not know US attachments.

 

[cmacd123]

As said all film-strip attachments for still projection (typically educational) I know, are full format. However, except for that one Kodak attachment, I do not know US attachments.

all the filmstrips I have or have encountered are the 18X24 format. even one Russian one I saw for sale.) the film is inseted vertically into the projector, and the film is advanced 4 perfs at a time. the projected image is horizontally formatted.

 

[AgX]

The 35mm film would need to feed from side to side in order to project horizontal images right side up. And of course in that case, vertical images would be turned sideways.

That Kodak attachment is the only one In know that has the film strip running vertically (though twisting seems possible). All others I know (those that substitute a film stage) can only have the film run horizontally.

 

[cmacd123]

the wikipedia article does not show the format clearly... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmstrip

but this one from the commons at least shows where the frame lines are
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Filmstrips#/media/File:Magyar_diafilm.jpg

 

[railwayman3]

If I think that I'm probably going to want to keep the majority of the pics on a film to project or scan (perhaps a special holiday or family occasion) , I have the slides mounted by the processing lab. (Usually cheaper and certainly less effort.)
For more general purposes, I'll just mount the ones which I want to keep. (Slide mounts are getting quite expensive and hard to source).
I rarely project slides nowdays, but have quite a lot of series scanned to show on the tv set.

The trouble with film strip projectors is the ease of damage and scratches to "precious" original slides, though this probably didn't matter very much when using duplicate filmstrips for school or educational use. I can just remember when Kodak (UK) supplied "lecture" filmstrips for photo clubs.....the frames were standard 35mm and we usually mounted them as 2x2 slides for members to borrow and view. The quality of the pictures was great, as you would expect, but presumably they were printed on the earlier Eastmancolor movie stock and the few that I still have have now faded to the usual pink colour.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

I shoot slides to project and thus I want them mounted. I don't scan the slides. If I intend to scan I use negative films.

I gave up projecting when the projector broke. So I've scanned and play my slide shows on my old 2K or 4K TV (75"). It does a great job, you don't have to set up anything, and your guests don't have time to feign a headache and say they have to go home before you show them it.

Here's one I did of 40-year-old Ektachromes. It's the Scuba Diving one. (The others were shot from digital cameras) I scanned them with a V600 and then created a slide show using Adobe Premiere Elements adding music titles, credits, etc. Of course, you can play it on a monitor or cellphone as well as a smart TV streaming from YouTube. You may have to set the size. The most is 1080. Some of the others are (4K)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDzogShfhgCHh2rVvEsFOJQ