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We are planning an exhibition that will be on continuous display for about 3 months - will the colours start to fade with such intensive use? If you work out the exact number of hours of projection over the show then divide that by 80 you will find the total time a single [...]
Sorry, but that won't work - we calibrate the machines to fixed film stocks and standardised chemistry. Everything is consistent and repeatable, it isn't much like playing around with a film camera and a processing tank to see what happens. The idea is that the negatives we produce will print in the darkroom pretty [...]
The archival qualities of film we produce are exactly the same as any other film. We are using regular photographic film and professional E6/C41/B&W processing. It is important to note that 'archival' has two components - one is the media being stored, the other is the storage conditions. One without the other removes all [...]
Viewers Our Retro-Reels are guaranteed to work in the viewers we sell (when we have them in stock), but will work in any "View-Master" branded viewer made since the 1940s. We can't guarantee they will be fully compatible with other brands of miscellaneous un-branded viewers. If you buy an old View-Master viewer (zillions available [...]
Using 35mm slides is a cheap way of projecting very high quality images to very large sizes. But the slides should be considered disposable and used on a night by night, project by project basis. When used continuously they will fade and if they will be used a lot, say for a week's evening events, [...]
By ordering or normal plastic mounted slides: Plastic mounted slides This mount is made of thicker plastic and will not distort plus the metal mask will hold the film flatter and reduce the amount of rippling caused by long periods of projection. You can also turn off the lamp when it is possible to [...]
Despite LEDs being a much cooler illumination than conventional bulbs, they do nonetheless heat up. The brighter the LEDs, the more heat produced. The VISIO projectors have passive cooling that draws heat away from the LED to improve longevity, but still get hot to the touch. There is no cooling at all of the slide, [...]
Yes, all photographic slides fade eventually. How quickly depends of how much ultra-violet light the light source emits, the quantity of light in the beam, the temperature of the slide. The 'VISIO' slides are exactly the same photographic film as all of out other products. The beam of the VISIO projector is very intense, there [...]
That's just a confusion over terminology - it is one and the same thing. 35mm slides refers to the photographic film format (the images are exposed on a roll of film that is 35mm wide, the actual visible area being 36mm x 24mm). 50mm (actually 50mm x 50mm) refers to the overall size of the [...]
Our Retro-View reels have images that are a very square-ish rectangle in landscape orientation. This can't be varied, it is part and parcel of the venerable View-Master system. Therefore, care should be taken when choosing your images. While it is possible to use other shaped images without cropping, they don't look great as they don't [...]
