Re: [Largeformat] Chromes and Travel.

["Karl Wolz" <wolzphoto@worldnet.att.net>]

Good idea, but not gonna help in this instance.  The goal is to keep film
sorted BEFORE it's processed.

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: "BASS" <coaie@empnet.com>
To: <Largeformat@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Largeformat] Chromes and Travel.


> 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.