Re: Handling of 8x10 Negs
Have you tried using SS hangers for drying your film? Pat:D
Re: Handling of 8x10 Negs
I use bulldog clips
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldog_clip
while they might leave an impression on the edge of the film , I find that i can very accurately clip on the edge. Plus you can feed them easily onto a string.
Re: Handling of 8x10 Negs
I also use Bulldog clips, commonly sold as "Binder Clips" at office supply stores in the U.S. As long as one is careful to select ones that mate properly, they work very well. I suspend two from a wire clothes hanger with a bit of nylon cord (knots sealed with hot glue) between the "wings" and they work well for drying either 4x5 or 8x10 film.
Using latex or nitrile gloves will eliminate the finger prints.
Re: Handling of 8x10 Negs
Jobo clips. They pierce the film with a pin and let you hang the film perpendicular to the drying line, so you can hang a lot of film of any size in a small space, and they NEVER drop the film.
They are expensive, but entirely worth it in my opinion, particularly if you're looking to go larger than 8x10" at some point. I've got 40 of them.
Re: Handling of 8x10 Negs
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David A. Goldfarb
Jobo clips. They pierce the film with a pin and let you hang the film perpendicular to the drying line, so you can hang a lot of film of any size in a small space, and they NEVER drop the film.
They are expensive, but entirely worth it in my opinion, particularly if you're looking to go larger than 8x10" at some point. I've got 40 of them.
I've collected kodak dental x-ray clips of ebay and from camera-store junk bins over the years
small clips with hooks that do the little pin thing - very secure and simple
(I also found a bunch of 4x5 hangers that just have to pin clips along a bar - easy to hang 8x10 from them too)
all dirt cheap of ebay etc
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ha - these are the latter
work fine for 8x10 as well as 4x5
http://cgi.ebay.com/Kodak-Satinless-...QQcmdZViewItem
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Clothes pins....they have worked for me for years and you can buy hundreds for a few dollars.
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I use plain old wooden clothes pins with the metal spring and have no complaints :D
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I also recomend regular wooden clothes pins. They worked for me when I used to shoot 8x10 b&w negs. I'd be able to get enough tension out of them to keep it in place while leaving just a small trace on the negative in the corner usually outside the image area.