Originally Posted by
John Layton
As I've mentioned in another thread...this is so very breathtaking! I'd love to see it in person sometime!
I do have one question regarding your choice of dark slide material. In the photo of the film holder laid out flat...it looks as though the dark slide bows downwards, to the point where it looks like (to my eyes) like it actually makes contact with the septum. I'm guessing that if this is indeed the case, then it would only be a "problem" while loading/unloading films - in that there may be some potential for scratching an emulsion. Perhaps this is a non-issue, but if I were you I'd look very carefully at your processed negatives, and if you see axially located linear scratches, then maybe a very fine polish on the dark slides leading edges (maybe you've already don this?) would alleviate any tendency for such scratching, and if not, then perhaps you might think about using a thicker dark slide material. Then again...not all scratches actually show up on a print!
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