6x6 slide viewer

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How do you view slides, walk me through it from coming out of the tank to the viewer as I'm confuddled, do they go in a set of glass plates or something?
 
Hold them up to the light, look at them and say "ooh", "aah", or both (at the same time if you're really good) :p
 
My method is to chop them up into printfile holders and then hold them up to the glass of my window, and look at them through a loupe, because I'm too stingy to buy a light box.

The ones that then look good I scan and have a better look at, no need for glass plates unless you want to keep them mounted and think you might damage them in a normal mount
 
mustanir said:
Hold them up to the light, look at them and say "ooh", "aah", or both (at the same time if you're really good) :p
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thats what I do at the moment :p

raathistle said:
My method is to chop them up into printfile holders and then hold them up to the glass of my window, and look at them through a loupe, because I'm too stingy to buy a light box.

The ones that then look good I scan and have a better look at, no need for glass plates unless you want to keep them mounted and think you might damage them in a normal mount
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I am scannerless atm :( but I did just see a lovely looking projector on ebay that I'll be watching.

what is a normal mount, I'm new to this slide thing :p I searched slide mounts on ebay and found glass ones which is why I mentioned them. I only assume you need mounts cos the slides are awful bendy
 
For 35mm slides most mounts are plastic nowadays. Unsure about 6x6 though, most of the time from what I can see though they are only used for scanning now. Glass mounts were known to break easily, the reason they fell out of favour.

With a 35mm slide though, once you get it out the tank you can mount them in slide mounts. Since I have never developed E6 myself, I have no experience of this but its supposedly very fiddly. You only really have to mount them if you want to project them as the projector has to have something to grip.

If your not projecting them then don't bother mounting and just store them like negatives in plastic film pouches.

Hope this helps
 
I mount them into the correct plastic/glass mounts then view them in my 6*6 Rollei projector. I project them onto my glass covered screen. "OOH AHH" so perfect.
 
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