Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/25

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Subject: RE: Initial Slide Sorts WAS: [Leica] home b&w processing
From: "Lee, Ken" <ken.lee@hbc.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:53:12 -0400

I only throw out obvious errors i.e. my foot while loading, inside of the
camera bag, out of focus or gross over or under exposure.  The rest get
filed in slide sheets and put away. Going back, I find some of the slides I
took 30+ years ago mean a lot more to me now than they did then.

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John Coan [SMTP:jcoan@alumni.duke.edu]
> Sent:	Monday, July 24, 2000 9:55 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!
> 
> 

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