Need some quick help...8x10" film, which side is the emulsion side?

[Contrastique]

Hey, I want to load an 8x10 in the back for the first time but I am seriously doubting which side is the emulsion layer, especially since my boyfriend does not agree with what I think it is.

I am going to use the Fomapan 100 and I think the grey side is the emulsion layer....he thinks it's the other side....please if anyone has an answer very quickly that would be great...I wanna try my camera!
If it's the grey side the marks at the top corner would be located at the left from the sheet when looking from behind when it's loaded on the camera. There was a standard rule for that location but it's been a while since I last worked with 4x5 and I forgot...

 

[mts]

There is a very old trick taught to astronomers in the days before CCD detectors. Moisten your lips and put one corner of the film into them. One lip will stick to the emulsion side. Of course there are edge notches on film that shows you which side is the emulsion. I learned using glass plates for which there are no notches.

 

[Frank Szabo]

Turn the film so the notch is in the upper righthand or lower left corner and it's correct for slipping in the holder.

To make a suggestion, simply burn one sheet of film to practice with if you aren't that familiar with LF. Keep it around to practice the loading.

Frank

 

[Ian Grant]

Hold the film by the edges, feel for the notches, turn the film so that they are in the right hand corner furthest from you. the side that's facing you in the dark is the emulsion side.

Ian

 

[Contrastique]

Turn the film so the notch is in the upper righthand or lower left corner and it's correct for slipping in the holder.

To make a suggestion, simply burn one sheet of film to practice with if you aren't that familiar with LF. Keep it around to practice the loading.

Frank

Thanx both for your comment. I already burnt one sheet to look at the film and figure out which is the correct side.
There is no "slipping" into the holder for me as I have to open the back with a small "door" so to speak and I can just lay the film in there. If you're holding the sheet with the notches in the upper right corner that means you're looking at the emulsion layer right?

 

[Contrastique]

Hold the film by the edges, feel for the notches, turn the film so that they are in the right hand corner furthest from you. the side that's facing you in the dark is the emulsion side.

Ian

Thank you!!! Now I can go!!!

 

[Q.G.]

Mind that you do not mistake an upper right corner for an upper right corner (at each corner two edges meet).

The notches are on the right of the upper edge when the emulsion is facing you.

Or on the bottom of the right edge (not the top of the right edge, which would also put it in the upper right corner), the left of the bottom edge, or the top of the left edge.

 

[Bruce Watson]

Another way to think of this is to find the edge with the film identification notches. Make this edge the top edge. Now turn the film so that the notches are still on the top, but on the right hand side of the top. If that's how you are holding the film, you are looking (even if you can't see it in the dark) at the emulsion side.

Notches on the right side of the top edge.

 

[Contrastique]

Or on the bottom of the right edge (not the top of the right edge, which would also put it in the upper right corner), the left of the bottom edge, or the top of the left edge.

Right.


I got it right luckily. I just didn't want to blow a sheet on such a mistake as the rest of what I was gonna do was kind of a gamble as well (guessing lighting of the film as I read Fomapan 100 is not even close to a 100, guessing dev time as working with motor rotation for the first time etc.)
First result quite pleasing, not perfect, but very pleasing and hungry for more