Darkslide convention

cowanw said:

Using your advice, I tried opening the filmloader that had the white side out, out of the darkroom. still ruined the film.:rolleyes:
Just joking, we all know that they have to be unloaded or loaded in the darkroom white or dark side out.
But my mind thinks that white means light has been at it and when I tried to be conventional I screwed up over and over. When I accepted I was different, I stopped screwing up. No one else touches my darkslide.
Regards
Bill

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- R

I refuse to be conventional!! I am a grumpy ol' fart who refuses to share my film holders with anyone else so it doesn't matter which damn way I chose to put the darkslide in the blasted film holder!!!

gene

wclavey said:

I simplified my life greatly... not only do I adhere to the white-side-out-for-fresh-film convention, I went through every holder and wrote, in permanent marker, on the righthand corner of the white or silver strip, the word "FRESH" - - so I know that it has been freshly loaded and is ready for exposure. If I don't see the word "fresh" then I don't shoot it. Don't like the word "FRESH" then pick another - - but why remember something you can look at and read directly?

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Me too. There is a long gray strip at the top of the pull-out darkslides on the Toyo holders. I have written the word "UNEXPOSED" at the left-hand end in permanent marker. On the smaller white strip on the film holder body, I have written the holder number (eg 6A, 6B) in permanent marker at the left-hand end. On the same white strip I can then write in pencil the type of film loaded. I use small plastic PostIt sticky notes (with the white tops) for making exposure notes and sticking on the holder after exposure.
I don't rely on the metal locking wires. I have now adopted the rubber-band method I read about on APUG recently.
Ian

white side out for not exposed.

i keep ALL my loaded holders in giant zip lock bags. so i always know any holder in the bag has film in it. i read the tabs to know if it exposed or not.

White side out, unexposed film inside.

Black side out, either exposed film or empty. Either way, not usable for picture taking.

If I'm loading and run out of film, I leave the slide on the empty's partly out, then turn it over (black side out) when the lights go on.
On the rare occasions I accumulate exposed holders waiting for processing I keep them separate from the empty holders.
I never remember which side has the bumps, so I don't rely on those. If there is any reason to doubt whether a holder has film, a quick shake will tell you, make sure to hook a finger over the dark slides though.

However, if someone would come up with an automatic turner-over for insuring the slide is switched after an exposure, he would be doing a great service. IMO at least

The convention always has been white for unexposed and black for exposed.
Anything other than that is wrong.
The film is loaded so that when the open dark slide is facing you with the the 'flap' end up the film is put in with the notches at the upper right corner.
Anything other than that is wrong.

That was what I was taught at the Polytechnic of Central London in 1979.

http://www.butzi.net/articles/filmload.htm

Roger that, Yellowcat! That's what I was taught at Central Missouri State University. It was drilled into us just like at Boot Camp. "This is my darkslide, this is my gun".