Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill, I do the same thing. I guess it comes from working at a newspaper where I would edit fromthe negs and go through 20-30 rolls of film a day and never look at the positive image until it was printed. I do this with both B&W and Color. One thing about editing this way you are looking more at the content of the photo than at the colors or what have you. Bill Welch wrote: > 've been interested in the editing methods described in response to > Paul's request for comment on selecting negs. Perhaps I'm in the minority > here, but I generally skip the contact-sheets and make my initial edit by > eyeballing my black and white negatives under a good loupe on the light > table. I've just never been able to learn much more from 35mm contacts > than I can from reading the negs Harrison McClary http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto