How do you looking at your slides?

I set up another poll for your favorite method of looking at slides. this one is for those that look at them using more than one method. You can vote for any/all in this poll.

Ugh. That should be "look" or "view" not "looking." Haven't had my caffeine yet this morning. Mods, can you fix the thread title please?

I look at my 35mm and 6X6 slides on a light box with a loupe to make sure they are sharp first before I project them, one of the reasons I have never bought a 6X7 camera is the projectors cost an arm and a leg and I already have a 6X6 projector.

I got this nifty little light table a few years ago in Japan (it takes 4 AAA batteries or an AC adapter.) I scan all my slides, but the results when viewing with the naked eye are infinitely superior.

Its so slow to scan slides and I have hundreds, its just easier to use the slide projector. Duh

Enh, these days I tend to make use of alternate technology, although I do have a modest light table and projectors for 35mm and Minox/Minolta size stuff. Some of my most recent transparencies were 6x6 and 6x9cm for which I don't have a projector. To be brutally honest, the abysmal turn-around on slide processing the last few years has pretty much removed transparency film from my future endeavors; in fact, I shoot very little color negative film either -- but I do shoot B&W film, yesiree!

The Fuji Pro slide films shot 6X6 on 120 film projected on a proper 60"x 60" screen are absolutely stunning Dave, I can live with the slow turn round time and the high cost of the glass slide mounts.

I agree with most of the sentiment on slow turn-around for getting slide film processed. The local Wal-Mart, who sends to Fuji, who then forwards on to Dwayne's, takes 16 days from the time of "pick-up" to the time the store has it back, and they only pick up twice/week! I can have it back in 10 days by sending direct to Dwayne's through the USPS, but then I'm paying a lot for shipping. Fortunately I've got a camera store near where I work that turns it around in a week or less (depending on when I drop off, and whether or not I need push/pull processing). Pickup and drop-off is 3 times a week too.

A week or less is a time frame I can live with. I distinctly remember 2 weeks being the round-trip time for mail-order when I was a kid growing up in rural Illinois, so for me a week or less is blazing speed!

I have a light table but I find it's easier to just make my monitor screen white and hold the film (120 MF) up to the screen. I also have a couple of loupes. Then I scan with my V600.

I use a light box and Peak 4x loupe.