Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mon, 08 Jan 2001, you wrote: > re: how many exposures fit on a contact sheet -- i always burn off the > first two exposures on the roll so that i'll have 35 or 34 shots on a roll > so that they'll fit in a neg sleeve and on an 8x10 contact. it's easier to > do this than to roll short because it works for pre-rolled film too. on > my darkroom floor i have many leaders with two frames of the floor or a > wall or something that i ought to collect and scan -- no doubt it's > publishable. > One local news photographer took a good "shot" at "art photographers" by collecting the first exposed frame on every roll of filme he shot for a year and printing them and haveing a "fun" exhibition at a local artist run gallery. As most of you know, these "first frames" are usually out of focus, poorly exposed, skewed horizon, wierd images of our feet, auto dashboards, bemused subjects or "alien lanscapes". Considering a typical newspaper photographer could shoot 3000 rolls of film a year, he had a hell of a collection to choose from. It was pretty funny and he actually SOLD six prints!! Greg Locke St. John's, Newfoundland http://www.straylight.ca/locke - ------------------------------ PictureDesk International ...news pictures ONLINE http://www.picturedesk.org