What are Super Slides?

 

Super Slides, also known as 46mm slides, are exactly what the name says. They are medium format film, trimmed to approximately 1-3/4 inches square, and mounted in a special 2" x 2" glass mount. Super Slides will not be accepted for submission to art shows or college applications.

 

The primary purposes are either for large display projections or, more commonly, for use with special background projection systems such as Virtual Backgrounds. Because the diagonal of the image is larger than a standard 35mm slide some projectors will cause vignetting at the corners.

 

The mounts we use are 3mm thick glass mounts and will not work in 140 carousel trays.

 

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Our Process

 

 

 

 

 

Your files are scaled and imaged on Kodak 120 E100G film at high resolution using one of our Agfa Alto Film recorders like the one pictured here with a 645 option mounted.

 

 

We constantly monitor the process and film emulsions to maintain the most accurate color balance possible. Your Images should be in either Adobe 1998, or sRGB color space for an accurate match.

 

 

 

The film is processed, and the images are cut to size and mounted in Gepe Pro anti-newton glass mounts.

 

The finished Super Slides are sleeved and shipped out within 48 hours.

 

 

 

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Preparing Images for Super Slides

 

We recommend that your images be at least 1800 x 1800 pixels, but this is not critical. Smaller sizes can be imaged, but sharpness may be lost. In many cases this is not important for background images. The physical size of the image we send to film is either 2,750 x 2,750 pixels (with the camera shooting @ 8k resolution), or 5,500 x 5,500 pixels (camera @ 16k). You can use these sizes for creating your files, or you can let us do the final sizing. You should allow about 2% image space all around for trimming and mounting.

 

If your image is square it will fit full frame. Images that are not square will have black at the sides or top & bottom of the image.

 

Your Images should be in either Adobe 1998, or sRGB color space for an accurate match. For Virtual Background images you will probably need to add Red to the image to compensate for lighting differences, but the amount may vary depending on your specific studio setting.

 

We accept just about any format for recording. You can check supported formats on our Format Page.

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Price and Timing

	Price	Additional copies
	$10.00 each	$6.00 each
Reorders of previous images*	$6.00 each	$6.00 each
*Images are archived for approximately 1 year. You may reorder from archived images at any time at the lower price.

 

We try to ship every Super Slide job within 48 hours.
If there are over 30 slides in the order it may take an extra day.

 

Cut off times in your time zone:
Orders will be shipped on the next business day if files are received by:		1:00PM	2:00PM	3:00PM	4:00PM
Shipping Rates
1st Class Mail:	$2.50	3-6 day delivery - no tracking
Priority Mail:	$6.00	3-5 day delivery - no tracking
Fed Ex Express Saver:	$12.50	3 business days or less with tracking
Fed Ex 2-Day:	$17.50	2nd business day delivery with tracking
Fed Ex Next Day:	$25.00	Next business day delivery with tracking
Fed Ex Priority:	$30.00	Next business morning before 10:30 with tracking
Fed Ex Saturday:	$42.50	For Emergencies
International Mail:	$14.00	Most Countries - no tracking
International Fed Ex:	$42.50	Canada, Europe & Asia with tracking

 

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