RE: Initial Slide Sorts WAS: [Leica] home b&w processing

[chucko@siteconnect.com (Chuck Albertson)]

I do the same thing, the day I get them back. The best editing tools are a
light box, a loupe, and a large bin. Storage is too much of a hassle to keep
the duds around.

Chuck Albertson
Seattle, Wash.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of John Coan
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 6:43 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Initial Slide Sorts WAS: [Leica] home b&w processing
>
>
> I used to shoot E-6 all the time, and would have my lab cut them into
> strips and sleeve them in a holder to go into a 3 ring binder.  Those I
> liked got Ilfochromed.
>
> I have lately been shooting Kodachrome, and it comes back mounted.  I
> found myself of late taking the fresly returned (after two of three
> weeks argh!!!) slides and putting them on a light panel with a loupe one
> by one.  The good ones go in one pile, and the bad ones go in the trash.
>
> I wonder if anyone else throws away the bad slides the first pass?
> Sometimes I think it's rash, but once I see what I did to screw up I
> don't want them hanging around any more!  This is also very functional
> to reduce storage requirements by 75 percent, or more!
>
> J
>
> Dan Honemann wrote:
> >
> > Henning wrote:
> > > I'm afraid you're not a true Leica guy unless you are willing
> to sell all
> > > your other possessions multiple times (plus extraneous
> relatives) to allow
> > > you to follow your infatuation.
> >
> > Funny, I _nearly_ broke down and bought a new Leica RT whatever-it-is
> > projector (the fancy new one that takes carousels and costs
> nearly as much
> > as a new summilux asph).  I heard that Leica glass calling my name....
> >
> > Instead, I bought the cheapest kodak carousel (4200) and lens
> (100/2.8) and
> > it cost me a tenth of the Leica.  Then I projected my first
> slides (from one
> > roll each of kodachrome 25, velvia, provia f, and sensia ii) and the
> > projector was plenty good enough to reveal all my (suddenly
> glaring) flaws.
> >
> > The slides looked so good in the cheap little plastic scope I
> had (you know,
> > insert one slide, hold it up to the light, look through a
> plastic loupe to
> > see the image); blown up on the wall there was now apparent the lack of
> > critical focus, the over- or underexposure, the poor
> composition (ok, this
> > much was demonstrable in the cheapy viewer, but I was too wowed by the
> > explosion of color to notice).
> >
> > Out of 140 slides, maybe a dozen were keepers, and of that
> dozen maybe 4 or
> > 5 were good enough to post here (had I webspace and a scanner).
> >
> > I got a lot of learning to do!
> >
> > Humbled,
> > Dan