Building Your Slide Collection?

Slides are returned from the processing houses in neat little boxes, and these offer a good deal of protection to the rather vulnerable emulsion-which soon picks up dust and fingerprints, and is quite easily scratched. If you do a great deal of projecting it is probably better to store your slides in such a way that each box or container represents one slide show, and is indexed accordingly. However we decide to store our slide collection we should attend to two important jobs as soon as the pictures come back from the processing house, First we should edit them, and then we should title them. The best best way to edit a set of sides is to use as slide sorter. This is a box with a light inside it and an opalescent top. the slides are laid out on top and shuffled around until they are in the most satisfactory order. Next we need to identify and title and number the slides, so that we can identify the subject even years later. The best way to deal with our titling is to make notes at h e time we take our pictures. Some photographers prefer to remount slides in glass mounts for better protection of the delicate emulsion. It does not matter a great deal what sort of mounts we use but we should aim at a standardized system of mounting.