Shel, It seems that you have a bigger problem than most of us. 12 bodies, wow! I was struggling to effectively use 3 or 4. Two is about right for me, to at least feel like they are worth keeping. Managing 12 has got to be much trickier. I'm thinking that you are going to be best served by taking the first shot of the roll with some identifier. Could even be something at hand like rock, sky, hand, foot, knee, key, wallet, etc. Doesn't even need to be well exposed or focused. Just enough to recognize. Then match the item with the camera body and you should be able to track the body later.
Bruce Dayton Saturday, January 26, 2002, 3:38:31 PM, you wrote: SB> You still missed the point - I don't care about filing negatives, just SB> how to tell which camera the negatives came from just by looking at the SB> negatives. IOW, if you hold a strip of negs up to view them, or lay 'em SB> out on a light box, or make contact sheets, how do you determine which SB> body was used to expose the roll, all other forms of record keeping SB> notwithstanding. SB> Why do I want to know this? Well, with more than a dozen bodies, many SB> duplicates of one another, it would be nice to know, quickly and easily, SB> which body may have scratched the film, which body's light meter needs SB> adjusting, which shutter is slow or fast at 1/500th, etc. Since I don't SB> always have time, and almost always don't have the patience, to keep SB> records of which camera was used for a particular roll of film, it would SB> be nice to look at the negs and know which body was used. SB> Some photogs have cut a unique notch in the frame, so that there's a SB> small mark at the edge of each negative, that defines which body was SB> used. Exposing the first frame of each roll by photographing a small SB> card with the body information on it is another option, as noted in my SB> original post. SB> Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >> I missed the point on this one. When I file a set of negatives, I put them >> in a plastic page with slots for the film strips. On the top of the page, I >> write the pertinent information. There are times when I record the body >> info, but only if I feel it's relevant. For the most part, I just keep >> track of the ISO rating I used and the development chemicals and time. >> Paul >> >> "David S." wrote: >> >> > Shel Belinkoff wrote: >> > >> > > Hi ... >> > > >> > > Many of use have several bodies that we use frequently. How do you >> > > determine which roll of film went through which body? >> > > >> > > I've started to shoot the first frame on each roll with a picture of a >> > > card on which the body information is written, but, when in the field, >> > > ot's not always possible to do that. So, what's your solution? >> > > -- >> > >> > I put a small piece of paper in side the the plastic film canister >> > identifying which roll it is when I remove the film from the camera. I >> > have that information put on the envelope when I take the film in for >> > processing. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
