Initial Slide Sorts WAS: [Leica] home b&w processing

[John Coan <jcoan@alumni.duke.edu>]

I used to shoot E-6 all the time, and would have my lab cut them into
strips and sleeve them in a holder to go into a 3 ring binder.  Those I
liked got Ilfochromed.

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

Dan Honemann wrote:
> 
> Henning wrote:
> > I'm afraid you're not a true Leica guy unless you are willing to sell all
> > your other possessions multiple times (plus extraneous relatives) to allow
> > you to follow your infatuation.
> 
> Funny, I _nearly_ broke down and bought a new Leica RT whatever-it-is
> projector (the fancy new one that takes carousels and costs nearly as much
> as a new summilux asph).  I heard that Leica glass calling my name....
> 
> Instead, I bought the cheapest kodak carousel (4200) and lens (100/2.8) and
> it cost me a tenth of the Leica.  Then I projected my first slides (from one
> roll each of kodachrome 25, velvia, provia f, and sensia ii) and the
> projector was plenty good enough to reveal all my (suddenly glaring) flaws.
> 
> The slides looked so good in the cheap little plastic scope I had (you know,
> insert one slide, hold it up to the light, look through a plastic loupe to
> see the image); blown up on the wall there was now apparent the lack of
> critical focus, the over- or underexposure, the poor composition (ok, this
> much was demonstrable in the cheapy viewer, but I was too wowed by the
> explosion of color to notice).
> 
> Out of 140 slides, maybe a dozen were keepers, and of that dozen maybe 4 or
> 5 were good enough to post here (had I webspace and a scanner).
> 
> I got a lot of learning to do!
> 
> Humbled,
> Dan