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Who uses cardboard mounts and why?

It depends on the customer, if they want it or if they don't. And it depends on the image too.

What are the other options, Stari?

Seriously, I don't know because I don't sell mounted prints. I sell the prints and leave it to the customer to frame or mount them.

I was referring to Slide mounts. Sorry about the confusion.

Speaking of Slides, what do you think of Kodak getting rid of Kodachrome?

I work completely in the digital world, so I'm not too concerned about the loss of Kodachrome.

I was more sentimentally affected when Polaroid film stopped production (or announced they would). My second camera when I was a kid was a Polaroid Swinger.

As for cardboard slide mounts, when I did work with slides I always immediately ripped the slides out and put them in plastic mounts. I used to have a temperamental German slide-projector that occasionally got its jollies by crushing slides.

Cardboard mounts - That goes back many years - My dad used to get his slides done in cardboard mounts , but I think that was due more to cost than anything else and also the technology that was available at the time. I do remember that there was a point in time when he switched to plastic ones and never went back to the cardboard ones. If the technology has improved for cardboard ones now, it may just be a quality issue and cost point which may determine the difference - I know that a friend still uses film to capture his pictures for books and always uses slides with plastic mounts as he also does presentations (ornathologist). He does have a digital camera, but swears that his film gets better results for presentations using slides. It may also be a technology thing where many of his presentations the places have slide projectors, but not a digital projector.