[pure-silver] Re: mounting slides

Shannon,

IIRC, the little dots of glue were used to stick together the two sides of a
folding cardboard slide mount. I don't think they extended into the area
occupied by the film.

Masking down to images of prints, particularly if the sizes and aspect
ratios vary, seems a very fiddly business and there must be a risk that any
kind of adhesive applied to a transparency might creep on to the image area
when heated in a projector.

You could mount the transparencies in clip-together plastic mounts with
glass inserts and then mask with opaque tape on the outside - not pretty but
quicker and safer.

Easiest of all would be to photograph the prints against a black
background - no need to mask at all then.

HTH,

Graham Max

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shannon Stoney" <sstoney@xxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 6:59 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] mounting slides


I made some slides today of some of my silver prints.  I want to mask
them, and a book that I read about photographing your own work
suggested having slide film processed only and NOT mounted in slide
mounts, so that you could mask the background out before mounting
them yourself in slide mounts.

I have never done this before.  The book suggested Letraline tape as
the masking tape, and it suggested slide mounts "with little dots of
glue" on the inside in order to hold the transparency while you mask
it.  It seemed to be suggesting that some slide mounts come with
little dots of glue.  But I have not seen these in any catalog or
camera store.  Does anybody know what brand that is, or have any
other advice about what kind of slide mount is easiest to use, or
even if it is a good idea to mount your own slides?

--shannon
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