I keep individual holders inside individual zip-lock plastic bags at all times... except when they are in the camera or in my changing tent. For transporting I use small 6-pack size coolers and ten or so bagged filmholders fit easily in a cooler.Originally Posted by Graham Patterson
The bags I have are 6x9.75 inches and 4x5 filmholders are a perfect fit.
With this technique they virtually never get dirty even if they are out in the field with me all day.
Bob G.
All natural images are analog. But the retina converts them to digital on their way to the brain.
Something about this technique kicks-in my industrial engineering training and just simply "doesn't look good."
Perhaps it works for you but overall it's probably not necessary if you keep your holders in zip-lock bags to begin with. Simply label the bags and there's no need for this routine.
Moreover, if you are not keeping them in zip-locks then the open ends are inviting damages from handling and opening another area for dust to get in.
My 2-cents.
Bob G.
All natural images are analog. But the retina converts them to digital on their way to the brain.
No wait a minute... as a human factors engineer with decades of experience evaluating the ways humans behave and function, I'm simply not seeing the connection you're making between the words "light," "unexposed," "clean," and "virgin." I sense this is a stretch.
Now admittedly I haven't seen any experimental psychology studies done on this subject of "metal side vs black-painted" side of film holders. My hypothesis here is that virtually no-one outside the realm of LF photography ever pondered the subject or cared enough to do an academic study.
But knowing what I know about population stereotypes and how they evolve, it seems to me that the concept of "black-painted side" would be more often associated with "lack of light" than "silver" or "white-painted side" would. In fact that was the exact association I made when I first started doing LF photography and loading film holders.
I never asked anybody which side should be used for which because I never knew or cared if there was a conventional wisdom about which side to use for which.
I do see where the existing conventional wisdom originated that others have mentioned above... i.e., with the association of "black-painted side" with the outcome of a processed negative going black. But to me that was never considered since I never did negatives until recently.
So to reiterate, my hypothesis is that most people would associate black with concepts like dark of night, lack of light, etc. and vice versa.
Bob G.
All natural images are analog. But the retina converts them to digital on their way to the brain.
I am not human (serious angst)? Or perhaps I am simply lacking in factors...
Steve
(Sorry...could not resist...)
After getting tired of checking holders this is exactly what I started doing.
Roger
White/Silver = LOADED and UnExpsosed
Black = Don't Shoot. (could be exposed, or empty)
When I first started I had no idea and operating in a vacuum, I decided to use black for unexposed and white for exposed. I learned the convention as soon as possible and switched to the popular convention, but it goes to show that there's nothing really fundamental or obvious about white=unexposed.
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
--A=B by Petkovšek et. al.
white unexposed.
black exposed
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I do what the majority do - white = unexposed. Black = exposed or empty. I don't have any problem keeping track of which are empty and which are unexposed.
BTW, welcome neighbor. A few of us (well, three so far) have been trying to get a local shoot together but schedules are just not meshing so far.
Black side- tarnished silver, silver after exposure.
Your mnemonic may vary...
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