Re: [Largeformat] Chromes and Travel.

["Pete Caluori" <pcaluori@hotmail.com>]

Greetings,

I've been using the same method Les described for a couple of years now and 
it works very well; you can uniquely identify 16 sheets depending on how you 
clip the corners.  The way I clip corners is place my index finger, of the 
hand holding the sheet, at the peak of the corner.  Using a small pair of 
scissors, I slide them up until they touch my finger and snip.  This sounds 
more complicated than it is.  It is fast, easy and I've never scratched a 
sheet or intruded upon the image area.

Regards,  Pete

>From: "Virgile Simon Bertrand" <virgilesimon@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: Largeformat@egroups.com
>To: Largeformat@egroups.com
>Subject: [Largeformat] Chromes and Travel.
>Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 09:25:30 -0000
>
>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.
>