I created this How To video for some of my students who wanted to know how I have been loading 4x5 and 5x7 film holders for the last 30 plus years.
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/272152776
Since I had 25 sheets of old 4x5 film that were bad, I put them back in the box and put this little 6-minute vid together in one take. (Only the first 2 minutes matter)
It's one guys opinion, and YES, my dark slides are "backwards" (from industry norms) I have always had them white=exposed and black=ready. In my defense, my new interns and assistants don't have to wonder what holders are exposed or not.
Vimeo now lets you make a quick gif of part of a video so I snipped part into the endless loading sequence below.
Some days when I go into the darkroom to load all 200 of my holders it can seem like this... only darker.
I'm curious how others do it.
-Schaf
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