Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]thanks Don...that's very helpful...Steve > Steve, > Tina, off in Ecuador, does this for all her "good" negatives. She has > stated frequently that it helps her file and retrieve images for her > stock business. Also, she uses the Nikon bulk scanner for her needs. > > However, I think that you will have to do your own mounting. I guess if > you are in tight with your E-6 lab they would mount your film in the 3-5 > cent range. > > Mounting yourself is fairly easy especially with the Gepe mounts as they > have metal sleeves that hold the film in position. If you have a huge > amount of film, then I suspect some of the pro labs in the Phoenix area > would cheerfully sell off their mounting equipment at very low cost as > pro's transition to digital obsoletes a lot of equipment. > > The only thing lost is the coherence of a roll in a printfile to show > you the variations that you tried. Once the "best" negatives are in a > slide mount those will live somewhere different than the outcasts. I > have given this a lot of thought for my own use, but too often want to > try one of the variations several years later and am not organized > enough to file in such a fashion that I could go back once I have broken > up a roll. > > Don > dorysrus@mindspring.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Steve > Barbour > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 7:32 AM > To: LUG > Subject: [Leica] 35mm neg C41 slides? > > I find handling slides ...easier and safer for film scanning than neg > strips, and with today's high resolution batch slide scanners I ask > the following naive question... > > any reason why one can't have C41 neg strips cut, and put into slide > binders for storage and scanning? > > thoughts, for/ against.... and anyone who does it routinely? > > > it's early in the morning here, am I missing something obvious? > > > Steve > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.553 / Virus Database: 345 - Release Date: 12/18/03 > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.553 / Virus Database: 345 - Release Date: 12/18/03 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html