Re: [Leica] Re: Re: Contact prints

["Joan & Ken Lee" <klee16@home.com>]

Gary,

That sounds like a great solution!  Who makes the 6X7 sheets? UPS charges
high brokerage fees so I try to buy local (Toronto).

Thanks............Ken
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Todoroff" <datamaster@humboldt1.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: April 20, 2000 3:18 AM
Subject: [Leica] Re: Re: Contact prints


> When I used the 24x30 cm (9 1/2 x 11 3/4 in) standard size paper in
Europe,
> I found it to be the perfect size for 6 frames by 7 strips. Then you
always
> have room for that sometimes extra 37th frame on a roll (4 negs on strip 6
> and 3 negs on strip 7). Also, the orientation of the neg sheet and the
> contact sheet are the same, with both the negs and contact strips running
> horizontally across the portrait oriented page.
>
> I use a three ring binder with the contact sheet on the left and the neg
> sheet on the right when opened. You three-hole punch the contact sheet on
> the *right hand* side. For a right-hander that means you can look at the
> contacts on the left that are in the exact same orientation as the negs
that
> you can fish out with your right hand on the right side of the binder.
>
> 24x30 cm is special order and expensive in the US, so I buy 11x14 - Agfa
is
> just over $30 for a box of 50 sheets at B&H. Then I cut about 4 1/2 inches
> off the 14 inch length, giving me a 9 1/2 x 11 sheet. It fits fine in a
> standard three ring binder. The leftover paper gives me lots of 4x5 paper
> and test strips. My contact sheets and negs are neatly stored together in
> sets of labeled three ring binders.
>
> For neg storage, this approach has worked great over many years. I really
> like the size and the same orientation of contacts with negs.
>
> Regards,
> Gary Todoroff
> Tree LUGger
>