E6 on 35mm - Mounted slides in 2021?

[Chan Tran]

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

I have 3 working projectors and I never show my slides to anyone but me.

 

[Joseph Bell]

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

The Gepe looks good!

 

[Joseph Bell]

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.

Ha! Yes! Which lab do you use? (I am in Canada also.) Do you mount them using a machine or by hand?

 

[cmacd123]

Ha! Yes! Which lab do you use? (I am in Canada also.) Do you mount them using a machine or by hand?

I have just been sending them to Downtowwn Camera in Toronto, which then has the work done at BOREALIS in Montreal. (but it is a touch cheaper that way.)

 

[Joseph Bell]

Hello again! I am most appreciative of your helpful responses, and I hope you will permit a slightly moronic follow-up question: how much of the image gets lost (i.e. covered up) by the plastic mount? Sincere thanks for your tolerance and/or enjoyment of this subject!

 

[MattKing]

Hello again! I am most appreciative of your helpful responses, and I hope you will permit a slightly moronic follow-up question: how much of the image gets lost (i.e. covered up) by the plastic mount? Sincere thanks for your tolerance and/or enjoyment of this subject!

A little bit.
That is one of the reasons that in the heyday of Kodachrome and other popular slide films, many consumer and advanced amateur oriented (and in some cases full professional) 35 SLRs had viewing systems that showed slightly less than 100% of the image frame.
As an example, here is the information from the instruction manual for an Olympus OM-4T:

 

[ic-racer]

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

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

Same here. Back in the 1980s I shot a lot of E6 and I mounted the ones I wanted with the Gepe glass mounts.

 

[cmacd123]

how much of the image gets lost (i.e. covered up) by the plastic mount? Sincere thanks for your tolerance and/or enjoyment of this subject!

don't want to sound like I am talking in circles, But it depends on the plastic mount. I think some of the "Professional" mounts that they used for multi projector slides shows even came in different versions wit different amounts of cropping. Unfortunately their is no longer such choice, and I don't know if anyone is still doing the 9 to 20 projector shows that used to be so much fun in the 1980s and 1990s.

example:

demo :

of course these days it would be hard to find enough Ektagraphic Projectors in good working order to do that short of show.

 

[BrianShaw]

follow-up question: how much of the image gets lost (i.e. covered up) by the plastic mount?

As mentioned earlier, it depends on the specific mount. Typically, standard cardboard or plastic mounts had 23 x 34 mm openings. Both areas and Gepe had mounts designated as “full frame” - 24x36 mm.