Yes, for sure, AB rolling with cement is the traditional way. I don't work with cement. In AB rolling and in single-strand, my tape splices don't show up. Hence the note about being good at it and loving it. <3
--- anna kipervaser annakipervaser.com On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 5:09 PM Jeff Kreines <[email protected]> wrote: > Anna: > > You’re cutting negative with tape splices? Single-strand (A-roll only)? > Really?? Given the lower gamma of negative stocks a tape splice is more > likely to show than on reversal stock. > > I’ve always cut my own A&B rolls. Always cement splices. I learned from > the great Tom Palazzolo that the trick was to tape (with paper tape or > masking tape) everything together with an extra frame of overlap. Then > take each roll and crank through and splice only the cuts that don’t > require looping the film around the splicer. And of course NEVER scrape > the black leader, only picture! Then wind in the other direction and do > the other half of the splices, again scraping only picture and keeping the > film straight. Then do the other rolls. > > This keeps you from messing up in a lot of ways. > > That said, these days I don’t cut A&B rolls any more because I work from > scans. One reason for this is that all of our films are color or B&W > reversal and there are not print stocks for making prints directly from > reversal stocks — thank you Kodak… > > Jeff > > > Jeff Kreines > Kinetta > [email protected] > kinetta.com > > > On Apr 22, 2023, at 3:48 PM, Anna Kipervaser <[email protected]> > wrote: > > So I'm cutting negs to conform to workprints right now, for a couple films > I'm working on and am being reminded, once again, how much I love it and > how good I am at making clean tape splices. So... I thought I'd write a > note here to say that I dunno who's doing their own neg cutting these days > and loving it, or where folks are sending negs to get cut if not loving it, > but am curious about it, and am also thinking about whether I would love > doing it full time. > > > --- > anna kipervaser > annakipervaser.com > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org > > > > > > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org >
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