PlymouthWoodworker Loc: Plymouth, MA

I have 25 Carousel trays (140 slides each) that I'd like to give away. Has anyone found that there is a market for these (free or otherwise). Where can I donate?
Thanks.

BebuLamar

I use them and I bought them from estate sales. I don't pay a lot for them perhaps $1 each or even less.

EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace

I bought seven or eight of these at the Salvation Army store a couple years ago. It was during one of their half-off days so I got them for 50¢ each.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

My father sold his straight 'box car' style slide boxes to KEH.

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

Please check your private messages.

Say Cheese Loc: Eastern PA

When my brother passed away almost a year ago, we went through his slides picked out the slides of family and old home pictures. We threw the rest of the slides and at least 50 trays. I see them on Craig's list often.

stu352 Loc: MA/RI Border

Maybe give them to an interior designer.... Think of it... A 5 x 5 "artwork" on the wall of a photographer's man cave or office...

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Some craft enthusiasts use them for something that I forgot at this point.

Bob Werre

Strange this came up, I dug out my Ektagraphic commercial unit and started to pace through my collection from daze past, as this time is good for scanning. Not too many years ago I was buying trays, but I now have too many. They take up a lot of room. BTW, the 140 trays often jammed up while the old 80's work better despite having to change them more often.

clint f. Loc: Priest Lake Idaho, Spokane Wa

I stored slides in trays but found they curl over time and won’t load properly. I have not come up with a solution.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Maybe sell them or give them away at a flea market?

Most folks want to digitize the slides they care about, discard those they don't, and keep the originals of only those they digitized.

Note: If you have Ektachrome or Fujichrome slides older than 10 years, scan or copy them NOW. Kodachrome and Anscochrome are reasonably stable, but the others generally fade in at least one dye layer.

My Ektachromes from the 1980s are quite "gone." My Kodachromes from the 1960s are all intact.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

I used to do multi-image shows in the 1980s. We had 15 Kodak E2 projectors driven by a Clear Light Superstar system (five 3-projector dissolves and a controller card and software in an Apple IIe, plus a four-track TASCAM tape deck to drive it).

I did a few shows with 140-slide trays. Murphy's Law bit me one time... That was enough!

Normally, we put all our slides in pin-registered Wess glass mounts. Cleaning four glass surfaces and two film surfaces was LOADS of fun... (not).

kenpic Loc: Edmonds, WA

Ditto for me, but my gear was AVL. Did a lot of "2 screen butt, center-overlap shows on 10x30' RP screens. Oh, for the good ol' days! The shows were fantastic for meeting openers--audience loved them.

PlymouthWoodworker Loc: Plymouth, MA

I know just what burkphoto is talking about. I remember multi-projector slide shows with dissolves and pseudo-motion effects. I'm doing exactly what one other respondent said: keeping originals of only the slides I am scanning and keeping. BTW the 140 trays don't work as well as the 80s on Ektagraphic projectors, but seem to work OK on the consumer models.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Yep! We did a couple of those 2-butt, center-overlap shows. Getting the Kodalith feather edge masks right was a pain! More common were 3-3-3, 3-6-3, 3-on-1, 6-on-1, and 12-on-1.

I still have my AMI standards and practices binders and some other goodies from that era. It was the most fun job I ever had, although financially, among the least rewarding. But it launched a career there.

We (Delmar) were a school portrait lab and yearbook printing company. So we did meeting and workshop openers (and closing retrospective shows). It was fun seeing 400 yearbook editors and advisors practically wet their pants during the closing shows. They loved seeing themselves. Staying up all night, processing and editing and timing the pre-programmed, pre-recorded show was challenging, though.

We did a show for a convention of several thousand Jaycees at Jekyll Island in 1983. They were just as enthusiastic during the closer, despite being hung over after a long weekend party.

More mundane were the sound/filmstrips, single-tray sound/slide shows, and later, the videos we did for training. But we got really good bang for the buck from those.

Ah, slides. I have to say, I don't miss them.