Unusual way to flatten really stubborn negatives ... if you're game.

[hans voralberg]

Keith have you try rolling it backward yet?

 

[Keith]

Keith have you try rolling it backward yet?

That's what I normally do Hans but this film was really stubborn ... and 120 is always an extra pain when it's curly ... worse than 135mm IMO.

I was just searching for a quick way to deal with something like this when you don't feel like leaving it reverse rolled for a day or two and just want to get the scanning done.

Adox does seem particularly bad though ... I don't quite know why?

 

[ray*j*gun]

Keith have you try rolling it backward yet?

I also do that and it has always worked........ but the film has never been that old.

 

[januaryman]

I've rolled/wound the film backwards and put it in a small box for a few hours. Amazing how flat it can get fast. I don't have the nerve it takes to iron negatives.

 

[oftheherd]

Darn, I'm slow!!! I still don't get the chicken reference! Please explain. The only thing I can think of is the picture of Keith (or maybe Frank) holding a chicken while taking a self portrait.

In Keith's title, he ended it with "... if you're game." With the meaning that if you are willing/brave/strong/whatever enough, to try. In English, game has other meanings. One would be (normally wild) fowl. Chickens are fowls. Foul is pronounced the same way. No doubt one of our wags will play on that soon enough.

I of course would never stoop so low.

EDIT: Someone correct me if I am wrong. But I think another meaning from (edit) game would come from a very old time belief in hanging certain wild fowl out to partially age (rot) to soften the meat. Especially with geese and duck. Keith did mention the roll was old.

 

[pevelg]

In Keith's title, he ended it with "... if you're game." With the meaning that if you are willing/brave/strong/whatever enough, to try. In English, game has other meanings. One would be (normally wild) fowl. Chickens are fowls. Foul is pronounced the same way. No doubt one of our wags will play on that soon enough.

I of course would never stoop so low.

EDIT: Someone correct me if I am wrong. But I think another meaning from (edit) game would come from a very old time belief in hanging certain wild fowl out to partially age (rot) to soften the meat. Especially with geese and duck. Keith did mention the roll was old.

I see. I think I need to stop reading the forum so late in the night!