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Photo Forum / Film Photography / Darkroom / June 20066x7 filing & contact sheet
How do you file & contact a roll of 120 6x7 negs? If you cut up a 6x7 120 roll into 3 strips x 3 negs it fits perfectly into a filing sheet and 8x10 for contacts. And then there's that pesky 10th neg left over. What to do? Usually there's at least 1 dog on a roll you can tell instantly just by looking at the neg which is easy enough to excise but sometimes you need to make a contact to be sure. My solution is to dedicate a sheet to the left over neg - 3 per sheet and make a contact of that. Not perfect but...  SignatureIt is not our patriotic duty to send children to be butchered & slaughtered & to butcher & slaughter others every time a general or a politician gets a hardon for a war. Rather, it is our patriotic duty to demand the highest burden of proof to justify war. It is also our patriotic duty to hold treasonous, corporate whore, war criminals accountable for their actions. > How do you file & contact a roll of 120 6x7 negs? I considered proof sheets and whole roll holders a few years ago when wading back into photography. I opted instead for glassine sleeves and proof printing interesting, possible, frames, to 5x7. Dan > How do you file & contact a roll of 120 6x7 negs? If you cut up a 6x7 120 > roll into 3 strips x 3 negs it fits perfectly into a filing sheet and 8x10 [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > make a contact to be sure. My solution is to dedicate a sheet to the left > over neg - 3 per sheet and make a contact of that. Not perfect but... We put them in our kill file, like posters that change their name so they can ask a question. SignatureWould thou choose to meet a rat eating dragon, or a dragon, eating rat? The answer of: I am somewhere in the middle. "Me who is part taoist and part Christian". >> How do you file & contact a roll of 120 6x7 negs? If you cut up a 6x7 120 >> roll into 3 strips x 3 negs it fits perfectly into a filing sheet and [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > We put them in our kill file, like posters that change their name > so they can ask a question. Are you still pouting? My god what a dysfunctional basket case. >Are you still pouting? My god what a dysfunctional basket case. Isn't the term "dysfunctional basket case" rather oxymoronic ? Now if one were the consummate basket case, well, then at least you would know where to start working. == John S. Douglas Photographer & Webmaster www.legacy-photo,com www.xs750.net > >Are you still pouting? My god what a dysfunctional basket case. > > Isn't the term "dysfunctional basket case" rather oxymoronic ? Now if > one were the consummate basket case, well, then at least you would > know where to start working. LOL. SignatureThe sometimes insomniac. www.gregblankphoto.com >> >Are you still pouting? My god what a dysfunctional basket case. >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > LOL. What a buffoon. It's the reason I was never overly fond of 6x7 for black and white. "Pros" that shot color negative film for portraits or whatever proofed everything to 4x5 prints. The lab usually matched the proofs to individual frames of film in separate envelopes. > How do you file & contact a roll of 120 6x7 negs? If you cut up a 6x7 120 > roll into 3 strips x 3 negs it fits perfectly into a filing sheet and 8x10 [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > make a contact to be sure. My solution is to dedicate a sheet to the left > over neg - 3 per sheet and make a contact of that. Not perfect but... > How do you file & contact a roll of 120 6x7 negs? If you cut up a 6x7 120 > roll into 3 strips x 3 negs it fits perfectly into a filing sheet and 8x10 > for contacts. And then there's that pesky 10th neg left over. What to do? They sell oversize negative pages. 12 6x7 frames will just fit on to an 8.5 x 11 sheet, maybe losing 0.05" of the end negatives. 8.5x11 RC paper is available and is easier to use in 3-ring binders. I, like everybody else I suppose, find one frame from the roll to chuck. I suppose one can change the gearing on the film back so it only takes 9 exposures on a roll. On my F3/MD4 I set the drive's frame counter to stop after 35 exposures. I find sacrificing the extra frame worth it for the angst reduction it provides when cutting the strip up so it fits a 5x7 filing page. I keep meaning to go to oversize negative pages for 35mm with 6 strips of 7 exposures. >> How do you file & contact a roll of 120 6x7 negs? If you cut up a 6x7 120 >> roll into 3 strips x 3 negs it fits perfectly into a filing sheet and 8x10 [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > I keep meaning to go to oversize negative pages for 35mm with 6 strips of 7 > exposures. It's just possible that this is the main reason the Fuji studio cameras were 6x8 instead of 6x7 (that and it would be approximately a 10% increase in sales of Fuji film!). Mamiya made 6x8 backs for their 6x7 cameras in response to this introduction. Since my color enlarger was 6x6 I never got very excited about either 6x7 or 6x8, I do have a couple of 6x9 cameras but shoot only black and white, and use my 4x5 Omega D-3 to print, and the "8-up" format fits a contact sheet perfectly. >It's just possible that this is the main reason the Fuji studio cameras >were 6x8 instead of 6x7 (that and it would be approximately a 10% [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >of 6x9 cameras but shoot only black and white, and use my 4x5 Omega D-3 >to print, and the "8-up" format fits a contact sheet perfectly. My Graflex has a similar back which is why I went to 6X9 eventually when I purchased the 4X5. Now it's all but replaced with the 5X7. No problem with contact prints there ! == John S. Douglas Photographer & Webmaster www.legacy-photo,com www.xs750.net I like 12x9.5 inch paper for contact printing for both 35mm and 6x7 MF negatives. Use Kenro Print-Thru sleeves for both formats and lay them on the paper and then lay a sheet of glass on top to hold the negatives flat. For 6x7, cut two strips of two exposures and two strips of three exposures. For 35mm, cut six strips of five exposures and a final strip of six exposures. I hate trying to squeeze it all on 10x8 inch paper. > How do you file & contact a roll of 120 6x7 negs? If you cut up a 6x7 120 > roll into 3 strips x 3 negs it fits perfectly into a filing sheet and 8x10 [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > to make a contact to be sure. My solution is to dedicate a sheet to the > left over neg - 3 per sheet and make a contact of that. Not perfect but... >How do you file & contact a roll of 120 6x7 negs? If you cut up a 6x7 120 >roll into 3 strips x 3 negs it fits perfectly into a filing sheet and 8x10 >for contacts. And then there's that pesky 10th neg left over. What to do? I deliberately waste the first frame, to end up with 9 on each roll. Chris Ellinger Ann Arbor, MI USA |
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