Rapid slide reproduction of text and radiographs

Abstract

Many radiologists give talks and lectures and their subjects require effective illustration, often with both text and radiographs. We have found that hospital photographic services cannot always offer the rapidity, flexibility and accuracy we require and have therefore gained experience in producing slides ourselves. The professional approach to achieving this effect is to use a difficult and expensive diazo technique. This produces brilliant white letters on a blue background. An excellent substitute for this is suggested by Eastman Kodak (1981) in Making Lecture Slides, using Vericolor slide film 5072. We have extensive experience with this technique and recommend it. The equipment needed is a 35 mm camera with manual exposure capability, a close-up lens, a cable release, an orange filter (Cokin No. 002) and a copy stand. A macro lens is best but a cheaper screw-on close-up lens attached to the camera's 50 mm lens will suffice. The orange filter gives a midblue background. Other filters give different-c...