Re: [Largeformat] Chromes and Travel.

[BASS <coaie@empnet.com>]

Riteway makes a 4x5 holder that has a numbered dial in the corner. 0-99
Works much like a name plate one sees on a x ray!
I saw this in the Calumet book. Sounds like a easy solution.

Tim Bass
WideLight Ltd.
Bend, Oregon

Virgile Simon Bertrand wrote:

> 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.