"Aidan Karley" wrote in message
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In article , C. Balci
wrote:
I have not
shot any daylight or any other bright picture so it seems that there
is no other way to have my lab cut the slide.

Strategic error.
When I've done night-sky photography before, and cave
photography, I generally try to make sure to get an "indexing shot" of
a bright subject near start and end of each film.

Your film will probably have markings along the edge of the film
(outside the actual image area) which will give you sufficient
reference points to tell the lab which bits of the film you want to
print. Different film makes have different numbering/ lettering schemes
though.


Indeed.

The problem of correct printing (or cutting by the lab) is that many of them
use automatic machinery to determine the initial location of the slide frame
edges, which is why the OP should have made taken some bright subject
exposures. If the lab is using a human operator for custom printing, he
should have little difficulty.

It should be possible to get good prints from mounted slides but for best
results the unmounted frames are better as the negative is flatter in the
enlarger.


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