FILM HOLDER CODING SYSTEM

FRAME  ONE	V
FRAME  TWO		V
FRAME  THREE			V
FRAME  FOUR	V	V
FRAME  FIVE	V	V	V
FRAME  SIX		V	V
FRAME  SEVEN	V  V
FRAME  EIGHT		V  V
FRAME  NINE			V  V
FRAME  TEN	V  V	V  V
FRAME  ELEVEN		V  V	V  V
FRAME  TWELVE	V  V		V  V

This is probably old hat with a lot of you but I hadn’t seen it anywhere so I thought I’d pass on my take of the Negative identification system.

I have seen a lot of flap notching systems but a lot of them have a wild string of notches that make it, frankly, difficult to identify the frame in the dark.

Another version seems to only notch the inner bevel of the flap which seems to leave them in the “shade” of the outer side of the flap and makes them very hard to identify.

I use a “binary” system that seems to work for me pretty well and makes it easy to help me identify the individual negative and allows me to easily pick out any frame in the dark.

I break my holders into batches of 6 (therefore 12 negatives) since that is what my tank holds. That is easy to identify since the individual holder can still be seen in the daylight.

You can notch the side rail if you want to identify each batch if you need.

I make the notches with an X-Acto knife so that I generate as little “sawdust” as I can.

The notches are shown below by V’s and are separated with dashes as placers. I put the first notches (or lack thereof as a 0) on the left side of the flap the second group in the middle and the third off at the right side.

I use the dashes because otherwise FB strings all the V’s together.

Frame one---------V---------0---------0

Frame two---------0---------V---------0

Frame three-------0---------0---------V

Frame four---------V---------V---------0

Frame five---------V---------V---------V

Frame six-----------0--------V---------V

Frame seven-------VV------0---------0

Frame eight--------0--------VV-------0

Frame nine---------0---------0--------VV

Frame ten----------VV-------VV-------0

Frame eleven------0---------VV------VV

Frame twelve-----VV--------0--------VV

I figured it was fairly easy to separate Left, Middle and Right for the notches in the dark,

as well as identifying Zero, One or Two to be fairly easy (Oh Kay so it’s really a Tri-nary system…)

You can notify up to 27 different negatives with this system.

Hope this might be of useful……..

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