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True confessions time: The films are all processed, but I've got over 100 pages of sleeved 35mm and 120 B+W negatives that need contact printing and reviewing for printable frames. 😱 I manage to expose the film but life gets busy and drains my energy for this next step. Scanning negs is even less preferable (much less actually) than the traditional process. But I WILL get to them, I'm determined. :angel:
 
I know what you mean Frank. I prefer to scan the sheets, then select what to print, like it was a contact sheet - I call it a contact scan.

Good luck at catching up. I doubt I ever will.
 
I have over 250 rolls waiting now. I've shot 30 in just the last month. I have more free time than most of you guys, since I don't have a job, but I never catch up it seems. I keep shooting more stuff faster than I can scan...doesn't help that I have several projects at once going
 
Get use to it. I have about 175 rolls processed but waiting to be contact printed. I only have about 35 rolls to develop; I have been developing film the last 3 weeks. I am always behind and thats OK. I don't do any digital at all, all wet work. The backlog makes for better editing. When I am looking at 100 contact prints its easier to just pick the very best of the bunch. Also I like to wait at least 6 months before devloping film in order to have a more objective view when editing. Keep shooting!
 
My mentor, the best teacher I ever had in any curriculum, Jim Megargee, used to tell me that your interest in photography is directly proportional to the amount of film you shoot. Statement made in 1985.
 
I just plain won't allow myself to create this situation ... it would drive me insane!

Everything I shoot has to be scanned PP'd and on my hard drive as a printable tif file within a few days of clicking the shutter on the final frame.
 
I am glad that I am not the only one buried in an avalanche of film cartridges and sheets of negatives. I try to stay fairly current with developing, but I have negatives that I have not looked at since I pulled them from the tank 18 months ago.

I find fun to go back through old negatives... sometimes it is 'why did I take the picture'... other times 'wow that is great photo'.
 
This conversation makes me wonder, why go through the extra step of making a contact print? A "contact scan" could be different, because it can function as a lower resolution enlargement, but learning to see the image in the negative (just as you would in a contact sheet) is something that can be learned and mastered pretty well with some practice.

When I first started with film years ago, I felt like I needed a contact sheet, but time and cost led me to abandon the practice and I feel like I have learned to read a negative pretty well. If contact printing is causing a backup, why not try abandoning it?

That said, I am by no means current on my processing. My problem is getting around to scanning. Yikes!

Jeremy
 
Keith said:
I just plain won't allow myself to create this situation ... it would drive me insane!

Everything I shoot has to be scanned PP'd and on my hard drive as a printable tif file within a few days of clicking the shutter on the final frame.
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I'm the same. Once one roll or 20 rolls is exposed in a day it gets dev'd and scanned even if it means I stay up all night and go to work on 2 hours sleep.
 
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