Digital to 35mm Jury Slides for Student Portfolios, Presentations, and Jury Submissions

It's hard to beat a 35mm slide for presentation. Colors are rich and deep, clarity is great, and unlike digital images there is little concern that the viewer will see something different than you will. For most folks, slides are a massive pain. Slide film is no longer carried by anyone other than camera store, it's more expensive to get prints made, and exposure is much more demanding. An artist wanting digital images, prints, and jury slides is likely to end up with at least two cameras and then find that the lab they used last year is out of business now..

Polaroid ProPalette 7000

One answer to this dilemma is to take advantage of current digital cameras and then get portfolio slides made from the digital files. To this end we have installed a Polaroid ProPalette 7000 film recorder here, two of them in case things get busy, and we're prepared to accept your digital files right here on the next page.

The price? $2.50 per slide from each file, $1.50 per additional slides from those files. So one slide each from ten files would be 10 x $2.50 plus $5.00 S/H or $30.00. Two slides each from five files would be 5 x $2.50 plus 5 x $1.50 plus $5.00 S/H or $25.00. If you are an art teacher readying portfolios for mulitple students, please contact us for pricing and schedule details.

Really Cheap Trial!

If you need to check us out, or even if you just need three slides on a one-time basis and don't need them instantly, how about three slides for $5.00? We'll run them right behind the full-price slides and mail them by First Class Mail - 1 or 2 days to the west coast, 3 to 5 days anywhere in the US. Just follow the rest of the process and enter "test" as the Discount code in Step 3! (Limited to one per customer, if we remember.)

At this time we do not run slides every day. Our regular schedule is to process E-6 (slide film) early on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings. Any files arriving by late afternoon Sunday, Tuesday, or Thursday will probably be run out that night and processed the next morning. Of course, there is always the possibility that we will have 37 slides to image and will not be willing to run a second roll for that one extra image - so please include specific schedule requirements with your order.

If you really need fast turnaround we can setup a special processing run for an extra charge, typically $40.00 to run a partial roll by itself. Your slides will go out overnight, or possibly even the same day.

Yes, we're a small shop, but rest assured that every step of the process is in-house and backed up. In addition to the primary slide recorder we have a second identical unit as backup. If the print server were to crash, we can set another one up. If our primary processor is unavailable, we have not one but two backups in house and an excellent professional lab an hour away.

The $5.00 shipping and handling fee covers USPS Priority Mail in the US, which covers the Pacific Northwest in one day, most of the US in two, and even Puerto Rico in three. If you prefer FedEx, please indicate that and we will notify you of the additional charge. We are willing to ship on your FedEx account, but the $5.00 charge then becomes a service charge for non-standard handling. (We can't run through our existing software when using your account.)

1: Preparing your files:

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We image from any combination of TIFF, JPEG, and BMP files. (If you have other file formats, contact us about conversion options. We focus on photographic reproduction and have little experience with PowerPoint.) The printing resolution of the ProPalette 7000 is 4,096 x 2,730 and the software will resize to fit from either smaller or larger files. Files smaller than 1,000 pixels in the long dimension will image without problem but they won't display nearly the full quality of the system. An 1,800 x 1,200 pixel image is a good range to shoot for.

I've posted an article on the process I personally go through when preparing files for the film recorder: file_prep.html

The full resolution is a 3-to-2 ratio. If your images are squarer than that the system will automatically expand the image as large is will fit and center it within the slide, filling the ends with black. If your images are skinnier than that the system will fill with black top and bottom. Either way, the image will appear as large as possible on the slide and will be masked with black to fill the remaining area.

Right now would be a good time to make a note (Notepad is good for something!) of the filenames you will be sending and the quantities of the slides you want from each image, then you'll have it ready to paste into the form in Step 3.

Actual uploading takes place on a higher-capacity server, click here to upload images.

For more information: vanhorn at whidbey.com

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