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Hi everyone,

I wondered if i'm correctly storing my mounted slide film? I've read that slide film can suffer from mold or fungus if stored under poor conditions. I currently store my slide collection in Logan Metal slide files, with Secol trans sleeves.

Thank you kindly.
 
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Hi, aswell as being CC Imaging, we are also the Official Fuji Processing Lab for the UK, we used to use the plastic sleeving but we've had to change our packaging due to supplier issues.

When it comes to storing your slides, it's like anything I suppose. Store them in a cool dry place, just keep them away from moisture and direct sunlight and you'll be fine. If you're really worried, try and get hold of some of those silica gel sachets and pop them in the box you store them in.

Hope this helps :)

Ben @ CC
 
ccimaging said:
we used to use the plastic sleeving but we've had to change our packaging due to supplier issues.
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Ben, does this mean we will be getting proper plastic slide boxes again rather than the annoying plastic sleeves?
 
You'll be happy to know we don't use the sleeves any more, unfortunately however the original plastic boxes are also unavailable. I think, like us, a lot of places have had to switch to a more economically viable form of packaging.

Since the postal service changed their pricing structure it made posting the boxes ridiculously expensive. So we've come up with an alternative that seems a like happy medium, it's a plastic tray in a cardboard sleeve that's roughly the same size as a DVD box, this makes them easier to stack neatly, they have nice spaces on the ends to write your own references and it means we don't have to hike the price up to cover the extortionate postal costs!

Overall we've had a good response from them and our customers much prefer them to the plastic wallets.
 
Sounds like an excellent compromise, I did wonder whether the RM price hikes were going to cause problems, sounds like you've found a good way round it :thumbs:
 
It's true, it seems we're constantly battling them instead of working together!

The main issue with the price hikes is that it's been catching people out when sending their films to us. A lot of customers had been sending film with a first class stamp for years and then suddenly it all changed and suddenly cost over £1.50, forcing films to be returned to them (which according to the post office can take between 8 and 12 weeks!!). Obviously this doesn't help us, but we stress to customers that they should get it checked at the post office.

It's also worth saving them up and sending more than one in a jiffy bag because this works out a lot cheaper!
 
Thank you, Ben for the advice. The packaging was from Peak Imaging and not yourselves.

Although i have used the Fujilab in the past a few years back, but i was a little disappointed in the results. Although i noticed the special offer you was running lately, a free Fuji Sensia 200 roll and resonable processing and print package, so i will happily try your processing out again. Are you guys using Dip and Dunk processors and FujiHunt Pro 6 chemistry i assume in the Fujilab?
 
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Bud said:
Thank you, Ben at CC Imaging for the advice, the packaging was from Peak Imaging not yourselves.

Although i have used the Fujilab in the past, but i was a little disappointed in the results. Although i noticed the special offer you was running lately, a free Fuji Sensia 200 roll and resonable processing and print package, so i will try your processing out again. Are you guys using Dip and Dunk processors and FujiHunt Pro 6 chemistry in the Fujilab?
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It's a shame to hear you weren't overly satisfied by previous results. However if it was more than 3 years ago, the chances are that it was a different lab working under the Fuji Processing Lab contract. Fuji's standards are very high and the reason for the change was to maintain the level of quality that our customers expect.

We do indeed use FujiHunt Pro 6 chemistry in our Dip and Dunk processor.

Maybe give Fujilab another shot, you may be pleasantly surprised!

Cheers
 
ccimaging said:
It's true, it seems we're constantly battling them instead of working together!

The main issue with the price hikes is that it's been catching people out when sending their films to us. A lot of customers had been sending film with a first class stamp for years and then suddenly it all changed and suddenly cost over £1.50, forcing films to be returned to them (which according to the post office can take between 8 and 12 weeks!!). Obviously this doesn't help us, but we stress to customers that they should get it checked at the post office.

It's also worth saving them up and sending more than one in a jiffy bag because this works out a lot cheaper!
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Interesting,But not really true, if you have an under priced/weight item sent to you the PO will drop and note through your door to say that and give you an option to collect, with of course a £1.00 penalty. There is of course then the option for you to collect the item and pass the cost on to the
 
My roll of Provia has just dropped through the letterbox, thanks CCImaging :thumbs:
 
medwaygreen said:
Interesting,But not really true, if you have an under priced/weight item sent to you the PO will drop and note through your door to say that and give you an option to collect, with of course a £1.00 penalty. There is of course then the option for you to collect the item and pass the cost on to the
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Yes, medwaygreen. You are quite correct that RM offer the service to collect with a £1.00 levy (plus the difference). The issue we found early on was the volume of underpaid film sent to us.

We had RM call us about payment for films which ran into thousands of pounds. You will no doubt agree that when faced with such large levies every week, waiting for the end user to reimburse the cost is not a sustainable option.

Whilst we attempt to accommodate our customers as much as possible, we are ultimately reliant on other services (RM). When these other services are changed, in this instance cost, we review our position and make sound economical decisions with our customers best interests in mind.
 
ccimaging said:
It's a shame to hear you weren't overly satisfied by previous results. However if it was more than 3 years ago, the chances are that it was a different lab working under the Fuji Processing Lab contract. Fuji's standards are very high and the reason for the change was to maintain the level of quality that our customers expect

We do indeed use FujiHunt Pro 6 chemistry in our Dip and Dunk processor.

Maybe give Fujilab another shot, you may be pleasantly surprised!

Cheers
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The lab i used was yourself, not the Cewe lab in Warwick.


Anyway on a brighter note. I have some rolls of Velvia 50 to be processed. How would i use the Fujilab service without a Sensia mailer? Would i just send the film direct to CC Imaging via the details on the website, or is there a Fuji processing voucher like in the past? Thanks very much.
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Yes, medwaygreen. You are quite correct that RM offer the service to collect with a £1.00 levy (plus the difference). The issue we found early on was the volume of underpaid film sent to us.

We had RM call us about payment for films which ran into thousands of pounds. You will no doubt agree that when faced with such large levies every week, waiting for the end user to reimburse the cost is not a sustainable option.

Whilst we attempt to accommodate our customers as much as possible, we are ultimately reliant on other services (RM). When these other services are changed, in this instance cost, we review our position and make sound economical decisions with our customers best interests in mind.
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I see that it was a very big and expense problem, so your action is quite understandable and I guess at the end of the day it is the senders responsibility to ensure that the correct postage is paid.:thumbs:
 
I see mention of the plastic boxes slides used to come in...

I actually filed all my slides in cartridges for my projector recently, figuring that I'd never ever view them if they were still in the boxes or sleeves they came in.

As a result I had about 30 of the old plastic boxes (Kodachrome, Fuji, etc) which I was about to bin, but thought there might be someone out there who still uses them, so stuck them on ebay. Amazingly they went for about £30, so there is obviously some demand for them out there!
 
Yes, the slide boxes are a common request here. As your ebay auction proves, they are quite expensive these days. With regards to processing, it became prohibitively expensive to continue to post out slides in these boxes.

Slide processing has seen more than it's fair share of changes over the years. Unfortunately, the majority of the changes have been forced upon labs.. ultimately due to a diminishing user base.

Film is no longer produce, bought, sold or processed in the same volumes. This has had an impact on the R&D for machinery such as slide mounters.

In the last 4 years alone, the manufacturer of our slide mounting machine (who also produced our mounts) exited the market in favour of producing packaging (or more specifically bags of air used as packing).

Their machine was a very nice piece of equipment, but...... would only print the frame number upside down (for use in an enlarger). Due to the machine sleeving the mounts into plastic pockets (a viable alternative to the slide boxes as sleeving is much smaller and therefore costs less to post), users would rotate the strip of sleeves resulting in all the slides slipping out onto the floor.

We sent out a questionnaire and the majority of users opted to have no numbers on the slides (rather than a number which was upside down that led to spilling out the slides).

You might at this point wonder why we bought this machine in the first place. Well, as no money was put into R&D, it meant existing technology would not be improved. Over the years mounting machines wear out and parts (or even sometimes individuals with the knowledge to service the machines) are no longer available. The only choice then is to consider what is on the market that can fulfil the volume required.

We were first made aware of the company's transition to packaged air when our mounting machine started to have issues. At this point we had thousands of slides, a broken machine and an apology that nothing could be done to fix our mounting machine.

Together with Fuji, we arranged to visit another manufacturer (in Germany) and found that their slide mounting machine was not compatible with the slides we had been using. Their machine had no facility to print any information onto the slides, not even the date. After a discussion with Fuji, we purchased this new mounting machine as it was the only one commercially available that i) would cope with the volume we required ii) had an abundant supply of compatible mounts iii) was still serviceable.

Our next problem was what to do with the mounted slides.


If you're still reading (thumbs up!) and interested, I can post what happened next.


Chris.
 
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ccimaging said:
Yes, the slide boxes are a common request here. As your ebay auction proves, they are quite expensive these days. With regards to processing, it became prohibitively expensive to continue to post out slides in these boxes.

Slide processing has seen more than it's fair share of changes over the years. Unfortunately, the majority of the changes have been forced upon labs.. ultimately due to a diminishing user base.

Film is no longer produce, bought, sold or processed in the same volumes. This has had an impact on the R&D for machinery such as slide mounters.

In the last 4 years alone, the manufacturer of our slide mounting machine (who also produced our mounts) exited the market in favour of producing packaging (or more specifically bags of air used as packing).

Their machine was a very nice piece of equipment, but...... would only print the frame number upside down (for use in an enlarger). Due to the machine sleeving the mounts into plastic pockets (a viable alternative to the slide boxes as sleeving is much smaller and therefore costs less to post), users would rotate the strip of sleeves resulting in all the slides slipping out onto the floor.

We sent out a questionnaire and the majority of users opted to have no numbers on the slides (rather than a number which was upside down that led to spilling out the slides).

You might at this point wonder why we bought this machine in the first place. Well, as no money was put into R&D, it meant existing technology would not be improved. Over the years mounting machines wear out and parts (or even sometimes individuals with the knowledge to service the machines) are no longer available. The only choice then is to consider what is on the market that can fulfil the volume required.

We were first made aware of the company's transition to packaged air when our mounting machine started to have issues. At this point we had thousands of slides, a broken machine and an apology that nothing could be done to fix our mounting machine.

Together with Fuji, we arranged to visit another manufacturer (in Germany) and found that their slide mounting machine was not compatible with the slides we had been using. Their machine had no facility to print any information onto the slides, not even the date. After a discussion with Fuji, we purchased this new mounting machine as it was the only one commercially available that i) would cope with the volume we required ii) had an abundant supply of compatible mounts iii) was still serviceable.

Our next problem was what to do with the mounted slides.


If you're still reading (thumbs up!) and interested, I can post what happened next.


Chris.
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Keep going! I want to hear the rest :P Also just got back in from sending my first slide film, as well as 120 film off to you! Can't wait to get it back already! Whats your average turn around? :)

Simon
 
Hi Simon,

Our dip and dunk slide machine can process films in under 2hrs. Generally, a process and mount/cut & sleeve order is posted out the same day it arrives. We aim to have orders with scan and print packages out within 48hrs.

I'm working on some large format prints at the moment, so our solution to a slide container will have to wait for a bit later in the week.


Chris.
 
I got a film in the post from you the other day so many thanks Chris! I'll be sure to send it back once I've put it to use. Nice to hear about your processes too.
 
robhooley167 said:
@ one of the CCImaging people

Does the £5 student deal for develop only still apply to the free film offer?
http://www.ccimaging.co.uk/students.html
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Thanks for the question. We have to be careful (due warnings of solicitation) but I'm sure a concise answer to your question can only be deemed as helpful.

Yes you can apply for the free film.
Yes as a student you can have this film processed for the price you quoted*.
Yes you will receive an additional free film with your processed film.

* This is the price for collection. P&P @ £1.50 would also be needed to cover the mail order cost.

I hope this clarifies the usage for you.

Sorry about the lack of update to the fuji processing tale.... I've been overrun with student deadlines today. I'll do my best to make some time for it tomorrow ;)


Chris.


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I look forward to reading the second part of the Fuji processing tale, Chris.
 
Just resurrecting this old thread because I have 10x Peak Imaging blue slide boxes going spare if anyone wants them. Can't be bothered to auction on Ebay like I did last time (as mentioned above I got £1 each for them!) so will send out at cost of postage if anyone's interested - drop me a PM or respond to the thread in the Freebies list in Classifield.
 
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