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, jco...@iinet.net.au 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 <pdml-boun...@pdml.net> On Behalf Of John > Sent: Monday, 7 January 2019 12:16 PM > To: pdml@pdml.net > 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 > PDML@pdml.net > 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 > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
