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printing slides
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I have completed a roll of slide film with astrophotos (constellation shots). Since this is my first try, i have only requested my lab to process it without cutting. Today i got my film. Pictures seem good. Now i don't know what to do next. I plan to cut the frames and select the good ones for printing. Do you think i should print all of them? If i cut the frames but not mount the slides, does it cause any problem in printing or should i mount them before printing. I have not shot any daylight or any other bright picture so it seems that there is no other way to have my lab cut the slide. Or, is there any way? If i don't plan to make slide shows, do i need to mount the slides? Regards, balci |
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C. Balci wrote:
Hello, I have completed a roll of slide film with astrophotos (constellation shots). Since this is my first try, i have only requested my lab to process it without cutting. Today i got my film. Pictures seem good. Now i don't know what to do next. I plan to cut the frames and select the good ones for printing. Do you think i should print all of them? If i cut the frames but not mount the slides, does it cause any problem in printing or should i mount them before printing. I have not shot any daylight or any other bright picture so it seems that there is no other way to have my lab cut the slide. Or, is there any way? If i don't plan to make slide shows, do i need to mount the slides? Regards, balci Check with your lab but hold off on cutting the film. The lab most likely will process using the uncut film. Just tell them which frames you want to print. Dave N. |
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wrote: I have not shot any daylight or any other bright picture so it seems that there is no other way to have my lab cut the slide. Strategic error. When I've done night-sky photography before, and cave photography, I generally try to make sure to get an "indexing shot" of a bright subject near start and end of each film. Your film will probably have markings along the edge of the film (outside the actual image area) which will give you sufficient reference points to tell the lab which bits of the film you want to print. Different film makes have different numbering/ lettering schemes though. -- Aidan Karley, Aberdeen, Scotland, Location: 57°10'11" N, 02°08'43" W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233 |
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"Aidan Karley" wrote in message . invalid... In article , C. Balci wrote: I have not shot any daylight or any other bright picture so it seems that there is no other way to have my lab cut the slide. Strategic error. When I've done night-sky photography before, and cave photography, I generally try to make sure to get an "indexing shot" of a bright subject near start and end of each film. Your film will probably have markings along the edge of the film (outside the actual image area) which will give you sufficient reference points to tell the lab which bits of the film you want to print. Different film makes have different numbering/ lettering schemes though. Indeed. The problem of correct printing (or cutting by the lab) is that many of them use automatic machinery to determine the initial location of the slide frame edges, which is why the OP should have made taken some bright subject exposures. If the lab is using a human operator for custom printing, he should have little difficulty. It should be possible to get good prints from mounted slides but for best results the unmounted frames are better as the negative is flatter in the enlarger. -- Aidan Karley, Aberdeen, Scotland, Location: 57°10'11" N, 02°08'43" W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233 -- Mike Dworetsky (Remove "pants" spamblock to send e-mail) |
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Karley wrote: When I've done night-sky photography before, and cave photography, I generally try to make sure to get an "indexing shot" of a bright subject near start and end of each film. Of course, this is buggered up if your film-wind mechanism is advancing 1+bit frames per frame. I really ought not drop the camera off cliffs so often! -- Aidan Karley, Aberdeen, Scotland, Location: 57°10'11" N, 02°08'43" W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233 |
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"C. Balci" wrote in message om... Hello, I have completed a roll of slide film with astrophotos (constellation shots). Since this is my first try, i have only requested my lab to process it without cutting. Today i got my film. Pictures seem good. Now i don't know what to do next. I plan to cut the frames and select the good ones for printing. Do you think i should print all of them? If i cut the frames but not mount the slides, does it cause any problem in printing or should i mount them before printing. I have not shot any daylight or any other bright picture so it seems that there is no other way to have my lab cut the slide. Or, is there any way? If i don't plan to make slide shows, do i need to mount the slides? Regards, balci If I'm reading you correctly, you have used slide film rather than having a strip of negatives - is that right? In which case I would suggest you cut and self-mount them yourself. You can then hand the mounted negatives in to be printed. I recall an astrophotography weekend back in '85/86 for Halley's Comet where one of the two slide films we managed to take was spoiled by having each of the images cut exactly in half as they were mounted. ;-( |
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"OG" wrote in message ... "C. Balci" wrote in message om... Hello, I have completed a roll of slide film with astrophotos (constellation shots). Since this is my first try, i have only requested my lab to process it without cutting. Today i got my film. Pictures seem good. Now i don't know what to do next. I plan to cut the frames and select the good ones for printing. Do you think i should print all of them? If i cut the frames but not mount the slides, does it cause any problem in printing or should i mount them before printing. I have not shot any daylight or any other bright picture so it seems that there is no other way to have my lab cut the slide. Or, is there any way? If i don't plan to make slide shows, do i need to mount the slides? Regards, balci If I'm reading you correctly, you have used slide film rather than having a strip of negatives - is that right? In which case I would suggest you cut and self-mount them yourself. You can then hand the mounted negatives in to be printed. I recall an astrophotography weekend back in '85/86 for Halley's Comet where one of the two slide films we managed to take was spoiled by having each of the images cut exactly in half as they were mounted. ;-( We both speak with the voice of experience on this issue...."Knowledge gained is directly proportional to the amount of film ruined." -- Mike Dworetsky (Remove "pants" spamblock to send e-mail) |
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C. Balci wrote:
Hello, I have completed a roll of slide film with astrophotos (constellation shots). Since this is my first try, i have only requested my lab to process it without cutting. Today i got my film. Pictures seem good. Now i don't know what to do next. I plan to cut the frames and select the good ones for printing. Do you think i should print all of them? If i cut the frames but not mount the slides, does it cause any problem in printing or should i mount them before printing. I have not shot any daylight or any other bright picture so it seems that there is no other way to have my lab cut the slide. Or, is there any way? If i don't plan to make slide shows, do i need to mount the slides? Regards, balci You don't need to get them mounted at all if you're not planning on using them in a slide projector, so don't bother doing it. It will likely only cause problems for you. In the past, I cut the slide film into strips of four or five exposures each and then store them in the same sheets used for storing megatives. You can buy sheets like these at most photo stores. |
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