Summer backlog

joxby said:
Well you can do your up most to ensure your pictures are a success but the potential for fuxup shooting film is so much higher than digital that you have to draw a line and let it go, or you'll never shoot it again.
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Maybe for some types of shooting (e.g., sport), but I can't say this reflects my experiences.
 
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Good opportunity for me to be winging but also ask a question.
I'm on top of my developing apart from one black and white film to develop which i'd love see as it's the last of my holiday rolls and gave freedom to my nephews with my point and shot camera. I've been stuck home with a terrible back for 2 weeks on tomorrow. I can move enough for processing, walk go to the shop but i can't bend or sit. So I wouldn't have the strength to sit down long enough to scan 36 exposure.

I usually process, dry, scan, put in sleeve.
I was wondering if i should process, dry, put in sleeve ... wait to feel better ... then scan. I think lots of you do this? And it might help with flattening the negatives which sometime seems to be a problem i get? I'm always scared that the negative will either get scratched or accumulate dust the more i manipulate them so usually i scan prior to put in sleeves...

As well as processing a film would keep me busy for a bit, i'm getting crazy posting lots on this forum and watching lots of iplayer stuff.... Argh... I'm an outdoor person don't like being stuck like this!
 
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@Strappy convinced me to process, dry, sleeve and then later scan. You're right that after sleeving they can be flattened, which helps scanning later. I've got a huge, heavy copy of HCB Photographer that is just perfect for flattening a set of sleeved negs!
 
Not only that, it saves loads of aggro with dust, I dry mine over night then the next day sleeve them before I do anything else, I never take them out till I've chosen which and what I'm gonna do, once I start fannying about leaving them on flat surfaces uncovered, it all goes to crap in no time.

anyway....slackers!


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haven't done em all but I've smashed a big ole in em..:D
 
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I always dev and sleave one night and then have scanning binges when I face the computer.

To help with my backlog I shot two more rolls of film this weekend and have only developed 4 sheets and scanned a half roll of porta.
 
Well my backlog is not improving, spent most of today (apart from 80 minutes) developing but I don't think I've scanned anything in a month. I think I've probably made it worse since the initial post...
 
Carl Hall said:
I currently only have a roll of 120 PanF sat in the fridge waiting to be developed. It's been there since April mind as for some reason I'm not that excited about the photos on it. Knowing my luck they'll be really good but I'll sit on them for another year before I get off my arse and do them haha. I tend to develop my rolls within a few days of shooting them, typically any shot over the weekend will be done on a Monday before I play skittles.
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Don't sit on that Pan F too long.
 
Arse! Finallly had the time and motivation to do some scanning annnnd the bloody scanner won't turn on! Power brick seems to be dead, no voltage at the out put.
 
Yeah, got one for a tenner. I'm really hoping it's just the brick and not the scanner and my multi meter...
 
Well don't I feel like a prize moron. Power brick arrived, incidentally a lens arrived from Japan including customs quicker, plugged it in, nothing. Changed the mains lead over, power in both units. Ejit! In my defence the multimeter did register power from the mains lead and nothing from the brick when I tested it last week.

Any way, three more rolls back from the local developing folk and still no further forward.
 
Thermal overload protection ???
 
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