Mail service that can mount 6x9 slides?

[L_E_Miller]

Anyone know a good USA based lab that can mount 6x9 120 positives?

My shop here only does 35mm

Edit: I want to give the slides away as a promotion. I know its unconventional.

 

[MattKing]

Was there ever anyone who mounted 6x9 slides?

 

[L_E_Miller]

Was there ever anyone who mounted 6x9 slides?

No idea! But I wanted to do it for a promotion. Take people's pictures and give them the slides.

Might not be feasible.

 

[mgb74]

It is kind of a neat idea. A 6x9 can be held up to the light and still be viewed without magnification.

I too never heard of 6x9s (or 6x7s) being mounted. Best I could think of would be to have a lot of mats cut, then sandwich the film in between. Or sandwich between clear and matte heavy acetate. But a lot of handwork for that.

 

[Dennis-B]

The largest slide mounts available are the 6x7 GEPE mounts, and those are "do it yourself" items. I used them for years for transparencies made with my RB67. Even the 6x7 mounts are a bit small to be viewed without magnification, or a viewer of some type.

The GEPE mounts come in glass and glassless types.

 

[John51]

Was there ever anyone who mounted 6x9 slides?

I've seen pics of a 6x9 slide projector. Massive. Made by Beseller iirc.

I've just bought a job lot of Kodak enlarger negative carriers all in their boxes. One is 'Colour Transparency Carrier'. It's a single piece of metal, quarter inch thick and deeply recessed for the slide. I'm guessing that it is for a glass mounted slide.

As it's a novel presentation idea, 6x7 would have the same impact imo. Gepe do 6x7 glass mounts but they are reassuringly expensive.

 

[BAC1967]

If you’re just handing them out and not putting them in a projector look at baseball card holders. They are about the same size and they make some vice rigid ones that would be great for presentation. Standard baseball cards measure 2½ inches by 3½ inches (6.4 cm by 8.9 cm). They make some nice rigid ones that screw together for display or simple sleeves.

 

[John51]

Good tip.

I've just had a look for baseball card holders and found this:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/100-Soft...441753?hash=item51e6050d59:g:B-YAAOSwVFlT5Ac~

100 for $4.49.

 

[BAC1967]

Good tip.

I've just had a look for baseball card holders and found this:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/100-Soft...441753?hash=item51e6050d59:g:B-YAAOSwVFlT5Ac~

100 for $4.49.

There are better ones that are more rigid than those but they will cost more.

 

[railwayman3]

FWIW, years ago I had some black card frames, about 5x4 outside size, for 120 transparencies, from the UK mail-firm Kenro....each held a transparency for such purposes as submission for publication, etc. (Kenro still exist, but I can't, at a quick check, now see much on their site for slide or neg storage.)

 

[voceumana]

I think that larger size lantern slides (as they were called) tended to be self-mounted using glass and tape around the edges. Way back when you might have been able to buy pre-cut glass to 6x9 and larger sizes for this purpose.

 

[wiltw]

Slide mounts were previously intended to be put into slide projectors, and no one made a projector (apart from the Beseler Slide King) which could project more than 6x7 frame size. At one time 25 years ago, the Light Impressions company made presentation matte products intended to permit professionals to present 645, 6x6, up to 4x5 transparencies to clients for viewing on a light table with a loupe yet protecting the matted transparency in an polyethelene sleeve. Here is a photo I just took of such a matted 4x5 transparency on a light table.

Unfortunately Light Impressions no longer offers such products, since the world has so largely turned its back to film products even for professional purposes.

 

[AgX]

I think that larger size lantern slides (as they were called) tended to be self-mounted using glass and tape around the edges. Way back when you might have been able to buy pre-cut glass to 6x9 and larger sizes for this purpose.

As a side note:
Such was standard also for 24x36 and 6x6 before lab-mounted slides or plastic frame mounts came up.

 

[AgX]

I'm quite sure a few years ago I rejected at a fleamarket a bunch of appropriate black, folded cardboard envelopes with 6x9 gate, as I found them too expensive...

Unless you can find such readymade, you still can make such yourself:
Cut pieces of black cardboard of appropriate size on a roller trimmer, grove them, fold them. Mark the corners of the gate by means of a template, cut out the gate through both layers in one run with a cutter knive.

 

[Willyekerslike]

I have purchsed black card mounts from ebay sellers that have a 6x9cm opening. They are quite old snd the the adhesive had dried out, they would have originally been self sealing. I just used double sided tape to mount and close the cards. I recieved them in the original packaging and they were in very good condition exept for the adhesive. I have seen packs of them on Ebay since so it may be worth keping an eye out there.