Comments on: Experts Share Good ol’ Days of 35mm Slides

By: Future Quest Technologies

Future Quest Technologies — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:15:00 +0000

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By: Genie Padrick

Genie Padrick — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:16:48 +0000

I would like to know where I can buy 35mm Kodak ready-mounts. I have a lot of film I would like to put into slides. Any ideas?

By: Rikk Flohr

Rikk Flohr — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:48:00 +0000

Great stuff! In fact, so inspired was I that I wrote about my 'ancient days' as a presenter. I couldn't afford slides so I went with overheads prepared on my DeskJet 550C. You can read about it here: Rikk's First and Last Presentation

By: Miguel.M

Miguel.M — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:27:38 +0000

Nice topics, bringing memories back to daylight but, why starting with “HiTech”?
What about those days, preparing slides by hand, making artworks with x-actos, glue, “edding” artmarkers, pasted photos, illustrations, titles with instant-lettering, drawing graphs with pencils or rotrings and colorizing them with auto-adhesive film, using x-actos, cutting your fingers and finnaly bringing all the artworks to a photographer to put them into 35mm slides… while you tried to get rid of all those hundreds of adhesive-film micro leftovers, from your hands, clothes, etc.?
Or… damn… is it me just getting too old??? LOL

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:04:00 +0000

The IBM slides were really impressive. Really liked the way they worked the fonts.

By: Nancy Duarte

Nancy Duarte — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:56:51 +0000

Hey Lee,
Great link and 35MM memories! Those were the days!
Nancy

By: Nick Smith

Nick Smith — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:54:01 +0000

That scene from Mad Men is probably one of my favorite scenes ever.

By: Lee Potts

Lee Potts — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:21:29 +0000

This might work better: But I can’t find a Pepsi anywhere…

By: Lee Potts

Lee Potts — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:06:32 +0000

And don’t forget all of the hassles that came out of dealing with slides as physical objects rather than electronic files. A recent reminiscence:

“For instance, we were still using 35mm slides. They needed to be in fragile glass mounts (plastic mounts tend to warp and jam the projector) and hand numbered with a sharpie. There was no putting a quick backup copy of your slide files on a thumb drive and tossing it into a your bag. You needed to hand-carry two complete sets of slides to the meeting, preferably using different people on different flights.”

(http://www.breakingmurphyslaw.com/2008/10/09/but-i-cant-find-a-pepsi-anywhere/)

By: Eric Albertson

Eric Albertson — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:16:04 +0000

Very cool. The last place I worked used the term foils as well. When they found out I was going to a company to work on slides, they began calling me “foil boy.” Thanks, Patty, Jim and Nancy for sharing your stories.