Cutting negatives.....

[RalphLambrecht]

Are you just making fun of me, or do you really use normal size scissors.?
I see two members have mentioned the slide cutter, i never would have thought about that.

I realize this might sound like a stupid question, most people probably just use whatever scissor is available.
But i know some of you guys have done this Professionally/For A Long Time, so i thought there might have been (at one time) some kind of "Special" scissor made for neg cutting.
Thanks Again

I'm not making fun of you;I'm using normal scissors, longer than the negative width so, I can do it in one cut. IME, the only way to cut straight.

 

[Pieter12]

One of the reasons that Hasselblads and I don't get along well, whereas many Mamiya cameras seem so well suited to my needs, is related to how profoundly left handed I am.

And most cameras are designed for those with right-dominant eye--witness the viewfinder on any Leica RF camera.

 

[ckuwajima]

The Matins cutter I've referred to elsewhere: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DMR8OII/ref=ox_sc_mini_detail?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A11ONN57JFWEZB
The wheel doesn't work any more on mine, but it truly doesn't matter.
Some sort of backlighting really helps.

I use the same Matin cutter.

 

[Sirius Glass]

One of the reasons that Hasselblads and I don't get along well, whereas many Mamiya cameras seem so well suited to my needs, is related to how profoundly left handed I am.

So am I. The Hasselblad rests in the left hand with the index finger on the trigger. The right hand focuses.

My 45 degree prism eye piece is set up for the right eye, but I can rotate the eye cup and use it on the left eye.

 

[MattKing]

So am I. The Hasselblad rests in the left hand with the index finger on the trigger. The right hand focuses.

But this means you can focus using your right hand. In most cases I can't.

 

[winger]

But this means you can focus using your right hand. In most cases I can't.

I'm right-handed and can't focus with my right hand. My right does the shutter and my left focuses. And the limited amount of hockey I've played was with my right on the top of the stick and my left below - though I'm left-footed, so maybe that figured in. And it wasn't in a structured environment - just pickup hockey.

 

[mike c]

It is my understanding that 14% of everyone in the world is left-handed, me included and using left-handed scissors is a joy to use so why am I using "right-handed" scissors in my darkroom? Because left-handed scissors are not easy to find in a right-handed world, along with left-handed drill-presses, punch-presses, etc. Want to have some fun, watch a right-handed person try to use left-handed scissors. Not on my negatives, however.........Regards!

Left handed enlargers.

 

[MattKing]

Left handed enlargers.

Or an enlarger you can approach from the side.
I use the first solution when I use my Beseler 67C (focus controls on each side).
I use the second solution when I use my Omega D6.

 

[GLS]

I'm not making fun of you;I'm using normal scissors, longer than the negative width so, I can do it in one cut. IME, the only way to cut straight.

I just use a normal pair of scissors like this too. Never had an issue with it.

 

[Sirius Glass]

But this means you can focus using your right hand. In most cases I can't.

And that is a real problem that is not restricted to you alone. Some have the problem with the left hand.

 

[MattKing]

And that is a real problem that is not restricted to you alone. Some have the problem with the left hand.

And is one reason, of many, why everybody should handle a camera or any other photographic equipment (if at all possible) before they invest in it.
Including Hasselblad cameras .

 

[Sirius Glass]

And is one reason, of many, why everybody should handle a camera or any other photographic equipment (if at all possible) before they invest in it.
Including Hasselblad cameras .

I agee. The only thing that matters is how the camera feels in YOUR HANDS.

 

[destroya]

The Matins cutter I've referred to elsewhere: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DMR8OII/ref=ox_sc_mini_detail?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A11ONN57JFWEZB
The wheel doesn't work any more on mine, but it truly doesn't matter.
Some sort of backlighting really helps.

I use this as well. have not noticed any scratches on my film because of it. I cut the film on my light box, so its easy to know where to cut

 

[Patrick Robert James]

I use carbon steel Japanese spring scissors. They look like those thread scissors for sewing, but a lot bigger. I also use an old pair of carbon scissors my father had probably from who knows how many years ago. A pass over a stone and they go through film like there is nothing there. Or Fiskars...