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From: dthk@mhuxd.UUCP (D. T. Hawkins)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Slide Projectors and Slide Storage
Message-ID: <1201@mhuxd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Dec-83 09:59:11 EST
Article-I.D.: mhuxd.1201
Posted: Thu Dec 15 09:59:11 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Dec-83 01:16:36 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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I have several thousand slides and have found that the best way to store them
is in old cigar boxes.  I put in cardboard dividers between rows of slides
and just stack them in.  You can get about 300 slides in a box this way.
If you number them and keep a record of what's where, it's easy to find
a particular slide or a group.

I have a Kodak Carousel projector with a stack loader.  When I want to show
a small batch of slides on a one-time basis, it's a simple matter to run them
through the stack loader.  I keep a couple of trays on hand for times when I
want to show the same batch several times (like when I get back from a trip).

This arrangement works well.  You don't take up a lot of space with many trays
and you don't have to keep buying new trays (no small expense if you take a lot
of pictures).  The slides stay flat and dust-free yet are easy to retrieve.
And cigar boxes are free--tobacco shops give them away!  For me, it's the best
of all worlds.

Don Hawkins   AT&T-BL   mhuxd!dthk     (201)-582-6517