----- Original Message ----- From: "Kosinski Family" <zin...@telenet.net>
> all this left right up down is a little dyslexic, especially if you can't > see, I suggest to you that blind persons are probably better at this "dyslexic" matters than people with good eye sight. Besides, whether you are able or not to see, when loading film (ortho film under safelight excluded) everybody is "blind", after all, we have to do it under total darkness. > so here is a tactile way to identify the emulsion side... the emulsion > side will absorb moisture so just hold your finger on it for several seconds > and it will feel sticky... this goes for paper, too You may be right, but why (IMO) ruin a sheet of film by planting your fingerprint on it. As someone already pointed it out, the notches are there to ID the film type and to tell you which is the emulsion side of it. Use the notches. Guillermo
