What an excellent idea! > On 8 Jan 2019, at 01:28, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > On iOS with an iPad or iPhone, you can use a little app called FilmLab. Just > point it at a bw or color neg and it inverts it on the fly for viewing and > capturing. Make it easy to view a lot of negs quickly and prepare them for > scanning. > > G > > >> On Jan 7, 2019, at 5:18 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Had the same problem with some 40 rolls of B&W negatives which I had >> processed myself and cut into sixes for storage over 30 years ago: >> fortunately, my scissors cut was individual enough to allow me to: >> Sort by film type (Ilford HP4, PlusX, PanatonicX, TriX, etc. >> Sub-sort by processed density - usually variable in my early days of home >> processing! >> Sort by frame number at the beginning of each strip. >> Match the shape of the cut at the end of the strip with the cut at the >> beginning of the strip from the same film type and the next frame number >> >> Took a while, but in the end I had reconstructed about 80% of the set, which >> gave a reasonably chronological record of my early disasters - some of which >> I am still making! It also allowed me to find some shots which were >> historically significant to my family, which was really the whole point. >> >> John in Brisbane >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: PDML <[email protected]> On Behalf Of John >> Sent: Monday, 7 January 2019 12:16 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: OT: Film scanning fun >> >> I've got all these old mixed up film strips & slides and sometimes it's >> really hard to figure out when & where. I screwed up several years ago and >> jumbled them all together. >> >> With negatives, it's difficult to even know what's on it until I scan it. >> VueScan requires a name before I can scan them. >> >> Current case in point: >> >> Five strips of negatives and a couple dozen mixed slides (1/3 Kodachrome & >> 2/3 >> E-6 most likely Ektrachrome, but possibly Fujichrome. The Kodachrome slides >> all have a processing date (3 letter month 2 digit year) & frame number and >> some of the older ones also have a stamp giving the machine # they were >> processed through. >> >> The Ektachrome/Fujichrome slides are all Pakon mounts or Plastimount mounts >> without frame numbers. >> >> From the edge markings the negatives turn out to be strips 1, 2, 3 & 5 from >> a roll of Ektar 100, but the 4th strip is an unnamed Fuji C-41 film. >> >> I'm trying to work out a procedure & naming convention that will allow me to >> easily rename them if I finally figure out where they're from and insert >> missing frames in sequence if they turn up later. >> >> This is slightly easier with the older Kodachromes & negative strips. >> Different machines used different color inks at different times, so all the >> No4 slides from Sep 99 have red ink and all the No9 slides from the same >> month have blue ink ... >> >> My current scheme (which I'm still refining): >> *Sort the images as best I can figure and group the ones that go >> together. >> *Create a folder YYYY-MM-DD-R00x using the current date. >> *Create a text file YYYY-MM-DD-R00x.txt in that folder. >> *Write down as much as I know about the film: Process date, Film >> type, >> frame numbers, image subjects, when & where I think I was while >> scanning. >> *Scan the images & Name them YYYY-MM-DD-R00x_001+.dng (skipping >> missing >> frame numbers when known) >> >> Repeat for as many "rolls" as it looks like I have to scan today. >> >> Eventually the image scans will be renamed YYYYMMDD-R00x-nnnn.dng for the >> date I figure I started the roll of film; placed into a folder >> YYYYMMDD_Identifier (place, subject, reminder ...) and saved as a sub-folder >> for the appropriate year. >> >> Why does any of this matter? Maybe if I can assemble a semi-chronological >> record of the photography I've done over the years, I can see what mistakes >> I made then and figure out if I'm still making the same mistakes today. >> >> But I don't need a reason, I just want to remember who I was, where I've >> been and what I was doing without it being so jumbled up and confusing. >> >> >> -- >> Science - Questions we may never find answers for. >> Religion - Answers we must never question. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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