Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/24

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Subject: Re: Initial Slide Sorts WAS: [Leica] home b&w processing
From: Doug Herr <telyt560@cswebmail.com>
Date: 24 Jul 2000 21:04:10 -0700

On Mon, 24 July 2000, John Coan wrote:

> 
> 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!
> 
> J
> 

Yes, absolutely!  Unwanted motion, wrong DOF, dumb ideas, stupid expressions all go in to the trash (unless I've got blackmail in mind, then the stupid expressions stay <g>).  I usually reduce my storage requirements by 80 to 90 percent.

Doug Herr
Sacramento
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