[Largeformat] Chromes and Travel.

["Virgile Simon Bertrand" <virgilesimon@yahoo.com>]

Dear All,

I'm relatively new is the field of large format photography and I 
still have a lot to learn. The mailing list is a great tool.

So far I've been using a Technikardan S45 that I'm very happy with, 
compact, ideal companion for architectural photography on the road. 
Never had a problem to cross borders, Xrays, etc...it always worked 
just fine both hand and checked luggage up to 1600ISO even at London 
Airport !

Well my current problem is this: sometime it happens that I cannot 
process chromes in the country I'm shooting. I spent 3 days in 
Cambodia and brought back home  50 4X5 slides total (25 shots as I 
always shoot twice for each frame). I'm usually carrying along 10 
holders and have of course to unload the exposed films on spot. BUT 
I've not find yet the perfect organisation to keep the slides in 
order. I've been trying to unload the holders one by one in two 
separate boxes (let's call them A&B). I have  then two piles of 
identical shots hopefully in the same order (first shot on top when 
facing emulsion).  I'm processing the box A first. Then depending on 
the results I should be pulling out the slides from the box B that 
would require a push or pull processing. 

The main problem is that I cannot be 100% sure that the lab did not 
mixed up the chromes when processing the box A. In that case the box
B 
is useless and I can't correct the exposure mistakes I did on 
location. 

Has anyone got the perfect trick ?

All the best,

Virgile Bertrand, Paris/Hong Kong.