Packaging Your 35mm Slides

It is very important that you read these 3 pages from beginning to end. Please Note: If you do not want to go to the trouble of doing this Slide Prep yourself, we can do it for you for five cents a slide.

Slide Prep, Page #1 Storage Containers
Slide Prep, Page #2 Organization and Orientation
Slide Prep, Page #3 Packaging Slides for Shipment
Slide Prep, Page#4 We can do your slide orientation and stacking for you.

It is up to you how you ship the stacks of slides but, if you use rubber bands, we would suggest using two rubber bands per stack since many time slides arrive with broken rubber bands. If the slides are not numbered, we have no way to know what order they should be in.

Number the piles of slides so that we know the position in the show. When you put your identifying number on the slide stack we are going to assume that is the start of that stack. If you put the number on the bottom of the stack instead of the top of the stack, your slides will be scanned in the opposite direction than you intended. Be careful that you do your preparation carefully.

35mm slide labeling We would suggest putting a piece of 2"x2" blank cardboard on the top and the bottom of the piles so as to protect the slide emulsion. Also, label the pile as to the order in the slide show and identify the "start" and "end" of the pile, just to remove any possible confusion.

You also do not want the piles too high, otherwise when the rubber bands are removed, the whole pile may be hard to control. Be careful not to get fingerprints on the slides. (Remember that we do NOT do slide cleaning.)

slide packaging using aluminum foil boxes Here is one way a customer recently shipped his collection of slides. He used some empty boxes that aluminum foil had come in. We think this is a great idea and, if you want to copy this method, we are perfectly fine with it. They are just the correct size for the 2" x "slides.

If you use this method, please put a piece of tape over the metal cutting edge before you start putting the slides in the box or you may cut yourself. This will also protect our workers when they have to take the slides out and put back in again.

slide packaging using aluminum foil boxes picture 2 Make sure you get your slides all facing the correct way and the #1 slide should be the one that is on the end that is closest to the "screen."

Be sure to mark on the box which side of your stack of slides faces towards the screen. Click to see our Slide Orientation Movie

35mm slide boxing When packing for shipping, if you have the air bag packing, it seems to work really well. You might also want to put the 35mm slides into plastic

35mm slide bagging If you are going to pack your shipping container with foam "peanuts" or some other type of packing material that might rub off onto the slides, put the slide bunches in a plastic bag to protect them.

If you would like to ship via Priority Mail and use the U.S. Postal Service's FREE Priority Mail boxes, please click on this link for more information.

Slide Prep, Page #1
Storage Containers
Slide Prep, Page #2 Organization and Orientation
Slide Prep, Page #3 Packaging Slides for Shipment
Slide Prep, Page#4 We can do your slide orientation and stacking for you.

Click to see our Slide Orientation Movie

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We specialize in slide to digital conversion, as well as digitizing many other films.

October 24th, 2007: Massive evacuations of record numbers of people in Southern California because of wild fires. The largest evacuation in California history. Hundreds of houses destroyed. Insurance will probably cover the replacement of their houses and belongings. The only insurance that will replace their precious photo collection is if they had their slides and photos digitized and have copies of them stored in a safe deposit box or at a friend or relative's house.

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The way we look at pictures has changed. Kodak doesn't even manufacture slide projectors anymore. Now we have DVD players and digital video projectors and devices that allow us to hookup our digital cameras to our PC's and TV sets to view our home movies and pictures. What about all your slides, negatives and prints? Your slides, negatives and prints have not changed. They are susceptible to fading, mold and mildew, flood, fire, hurricane and just plain neglect. There are probably millions of people in the Gulf Coast that are wishing they had gotten their photos converted to digital before Hurricane Katrina, last year.

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Don't let your photographs fade away, become damaged or lost to posterity. Let our 35mm scanning service help you bring your photographs and slides and other films into the 21st century as digital images. Once digitized there is a whole world of new possibilities waiting for you.