i hate cutting 35mm negatives into strips

[removed account4]

yes, i do

 

[Pinholemaster]

Better than cutting them length wise. So, then don't cut them, or shoot large format. Then you won't have to bother us with your likes and hates. HA!

 

[Ian Grant]

I hate leaving 35mm uncut as a roll because that leads to damaged, scratched negatives

Ian

 

[tim_walls]

Hell no. Now, if you'd said "cutting and mounting 35mm into slides", I'd have been with you all the way.

 

[Fabian]

oh hell. i think it needed like 15 rolls till i managed to not crop them. sometimes it still happens, when I shoot with my not so trusty rangefinder. sometimes the spaces in between negatives are very small. Also after a whole night of developing, I need my last concentration to do that.

 

[m_liddell]

The frame spacing on my nikon fm isn't always consistant so I pick a space that has a large distance between frames

 

[benjiboy]

It's not too bad with cutting negs into strips of six, bit cutting 36 trannies to mount is a real pain, having to make 72 cuts

 

[Lee L]

I've been using a Fiskars 4x6 inch bypass trimmer (like a paper trimmer) to cut my 120 and 35mm film lately. Makes it faster and much less tedious. You can find it at most of the big box office supply stores in the US. It even cuts well through the continuous negative sleeves my processor uses. I have an Omega 4x5 enlarger, so I like longer strips (6 frames in 35mm) than the color labs I use will cut.

Lee

 

[IloveTLRs]

No. I got a small cutting board that makes it easier.
Cutting 35mm from a half camera is a pain, however.

 

[Fotoguy20d]

I use a pair of scissors most of the time. When the spacing is small, I use the straight edge from my mat cutter (has a rubber no-slip strip on the bottom) and an exacto knife.

Dan

 

[azza]

I dont like it at all
I hold my breath when im making the cuts. So worried about cutting into a frame.
I'm pretty new to the whole self developing and cutting though, so hopefully it gets better with more experience.

 

[Martin Aislabie]

I find 120 to be a bigger pain - longer cuts and narrow gaps

Once I get my eye in though - I am away - no problem

Martin

 

[winger]

Hell no. Now, if you'd said "cutting and mounting 35mm into slides", I'd have been with you all the way.

Totally with you!

 

[benjiboy]

The best thing for cutting negs I've found are those narrow bladed hairdressers scissors.

 

[Akki14]

I don't mind cutting them usually but I do prefer cutting through the big spacings on film from the finetta88 (though less so on those first two frames that usually touch and have no framing spacing nearly).

 

[BWGirl]

It's one of those "in the greater scheme of things" activities... ie, in thegreater scheme of things, it's no big deal.

 

[Mike Richards]

I cut into 6 frame strips to store in my ClearFile (6 frames x 7 strips) sleeves. To get accurate cuts, I picked up a Rowi film cutter in a bargain barrel one time while visiting Germany. It works perfectly and cost only about 5-6 Euro as I recall.

 

[juanito]

No I do not. Maybe because I do not shoot to much in 35mm.

 

[Toffle]

OK, my big mistake is to cut them on their hangers after they are dry... which works out fine for most strips, but when I'm getting to the strips above eye level, I tend to screw up. The problem is, I never learn. I keep doing it.

cheers,

 

[srs5694]

I make fewer mistakes than the commercial photofinishers. One of my cameras has slightly wider-than-normal spacing. I once got a set of slides back from a photofinisher that started out fine but slowly drifted off, until some slides had only about 3/4 of their own frame and a bit from the preceding one.

Never hire a machine to do a human's job. Cutting negatives is a human's job.

 

[Monophoto]

Process check: what is the question?

There are two ways to interpret this poll - either the question is -

-do you cut 35mm film into strips?

or

- do you hate cutting 35mm film into strips?

When constructing a poll, the wording of the question can seriously skew the outcome of the poll. Applies in spades to political polls.

 

[eric]

The technique maybe? I worked in a lab and I hand-cut B&W film by the hundreds. Maybe I'm tuned out to it and just do it robotically. Lay them flat on a light box, cut the first 5 or 6 depending on the sheet holders, slide the long roll on top of the one I just cut (same length so no need to count), and oddly enough, each cut will be on the same area relative to the notches.

 

[KWhitmore]

Cutting 35mm negatives sucks! Some of the spaces are so close together it looks like one really long negative...(camera problem or creative possibility??) I also hold my breath when cutting and sometimes concentrate so hard that the rest of the roll goes slithering off the desk while I'm left holding the first strip. That said, I'll keep making them...and cutting them...

Kathy

 

[Ole]

This doesn't worry me at all - except when I've been playing around with night photography. When the majority of the frame is just as unexposed as the space between the frames, I do worry about where to cut.

 

[david b]

Mostly, I do not like printing from 35mm negs.