Re: Yippee!

On 21 Jan 2006 14:25:09 GMT, Marjolein Katsma <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>> Since most of mine are Kodachromes ICE is not really an option so I'm
>> very meticulous about cleaning them. First, I wipe them with the
>> microfiber cloth before putting the film in the holder. Next, I took
>> the blow brush apart and then use the brush part to "swirl" it around
>> the film ("rotating" the brush in the corners works miracles!).
>> Finally, I use the bulb part alone to send jets of air and remove any
>> remaining dust. I find this works much better than blowing air through
>> the brush as it seems to dissipate the air. Some people actually use
>> an air compressor (or air cans) to achieve the same effect.
>
>Aha. At the store I could choose between a bulb with only an air
>"spout" and one with a brush. I chose the one with the soft brush and
>coming home I found what I expected: the brush does come off. And it has
>a nice, big bulb: just what I wanted. (I have a small one in a little
>box "cleaning kit" that I take along on my travels to clean my camera
>and lenses but for use at home I like the bigger bulb.)
>
>Thanks for the "cleaning tips".

Glad it helps! I actually discovered the brush comes off by accident.
It's an old brush I had for a long time, and every now and then it
would just "fall off" as I tried to blow air. This annoyed me a lot
until I discovered this was not a bug but a "feature"! :o)

>Still busy "getting organized" - putting film strips in those, um,
>"ringbinder storage pages for negatives" is boring - unless I *look* at
>the negatives and then it becomes distracting! The renumbering of about
>half my films - negative sheets, contact prints, prints, notes,
>descriptions - is going to be quite a job, too. Sigh.
>
>Got some other "getting organized" stuff today: boxes to store all my
>photo "stuff", and a USB 2.0 hub (I only had a 1.0 hub - not the optimal
>way to connect the scanner!). Saw some external drives on sale,
>including a 1 Terabyte(!) one (firewire 400/800) for EUR 888 - very
>tempting... and a 400Gb was EUR 249.

I know exactly what you're going through!

I took me quite a while because I also wanted to date all of it.
Mounted slides were easy because they had the date printed on the
mount. Unmounted slides I was also lucky with because I kept them in
original envelopes they came back in and those had the date. The
problem is negatives (some I have developed myself) and others which
were just in plain envelopes. And then, of course, the photos. A few
had a date at the back so I was able to date some negatives but most
didn't. However, some I was able to figure out by comparing to slides
from the same period.

In any case, it was very messy but now at least I have everything in
chronological order. There are still a couple of question marks but
those I will have to figure out by looking at image content. Sort of I
got a "thing" in some year, now let's see on what photos does that
"thing" show up...

Don.
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