Bolo, For what it is worth, I am using BesFile from B&H. They hold 3 strips of 4 horizontally. I have purchased oversized binders to hold them and it works just fine. To me, the key here is "storage". If I end up using 2 negative pages per roll of 120, I have effectively doubled my storage requirements. That is why I am very happy to have these slightly oversized pages.
As for contact sheets, I can't make them at home anyways, so it is not of as much concern. However, the 6X7 negative makes it pretty easy to directly see them by just setting the page on a light table, even though they are negatives. Bruce Dayton Tuesday, April 09, 2002, 12:16:56 AM, you wrote: B> [ From the Medium Format Enlarging thread ] B> Bruce Dayton writes: >> I just purchased negative pages from B&H that are specifically >> designed for 67. They are a little wider than 8.5" and will take >> three negs per pocket. This way I can get a whole roll in one page. B> I've been looking at 120 negative storage pages recently. This leads B> a question of ... what do other list members use for MF storage? B> In the same vein, how long a negative strip do people prefer for the B> various MF (6x4.5, 6x6, 6x7) formats? B> So far i've had my 6x7 negatives cut in strips of 3, so I could B> fit 10 on a page of the storage systems mentioned below. My old 6x6 B> negatives were cut in strips of 2. However the 2x strips seems a bit B> more manageable after holding a 3x 6x7 strip of negatives! B> I was hoping to find a storage system which allow use as a contact B> printing holder. Unfortunately it seems a lost cause to fit a 120 B> roll formatted into 6x7 roll onto an 8x10 contact-printing sheet. B> Doesn't seem a good match between 6x7 and contact printing; the best B> seems to be the 4x2 == 8 per sheet system, and do 1.5 contact prints B> per 120 roll. Any suggestions here would be interesting. B> The things I've looked at so far are: B> ClearFile has a page which holds 12 6x7 negatives in a horizontal B> format. It is labeled as a transparency holder, I don't understand if B> there is any differences. It is arranged in 4 horizontal 4 slots of B> 3 negative strips. As you mention, the pages are a little wider than B> 8.5 -- 10-1/2 x 11-1/2 They are quite a bit oversize. That's what I B> am trying right now. I like them since I can get an entire 120 roll B> on one page, and two pages will hold a 220 roll. They have another B> sheet of the same size which has a opaque label area at the top. B> I was looking for other products; PrintFile has a product which will B> hold 12 in 4 strips of 3 negatives each as well. Horizontal again. B> They also have a system which will hold hold 4x2 strips of 6x7 B> negatives, allowing 1.5 storage pages per 120 roll, or 2.5 pages per B> 220 roll. B> Vue-All has some 120 products, but all I've seen so far are some which B> hold 3 strips of 3 negative vertically. I don't have any info on B> their products. B> Bolo -- Josef T. Burger - 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 .
