Re: [Leica] 35mm neg C41 slides?

["Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net>]

thanks Don...that's very helpful...Steve


> Steve,
> Tina, off in Ecuador, does this for all her "good" negatives.  She
has
> stated frequently that it helps her file and retrieve images for her
> stock business.  Also, she uses the Nikon bulk scanner for her
needs.
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> However, I think that you will have to do your own mounting.  I
guess if
> you are in tight with your E-6 lab they would mount your film in the
3-5
> cent range.
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> Mounting yourself is fairly easy especially with the Gepe mounts as
they
> have metal sleeves that hold the film in position.  If you have a
huge
> amount of film, then I suspect some of the pro labs in the Phoenix
area
> would cheerfully sell off their mounting equipment at very low cost
as
> pro's transition to digital obsoletes a lot of equipment.
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> The only thing lost is the coherence of a roll in a printfile to
show
> you the variations that you tried.  Once the "best" negatives are in
a
> slide mount those will live somewhere different than the outcasts.
I
> have given this a lot of thought for my own use, but too often want
to
> try one of the variations several years later and am not organized
> enough to file in such a fashion that I could go back once I have
broken
> up a roll.
>
> Don
> dorysrus@mindspring.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Steve
> Barbour
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 7:32 AM
> To: LUG
> Subject: [Leica] 35mm neg C41 slides?
>
> I find handling slides ...easier and safer for film scanning  than
neg
> strips, and with today's high resolution batch slide scanners I ask
> the following naive question...
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> any reason why one can't have C41 neg strips cut, and put into slide
> binders for storage and scanning?
>
> thoughts, for/ against.... and anyone who does it routinely?
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> it's early in the morning here, am I missing something obvious?
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