I have a set of thin *cotton* gloves from Kodak that I have used when
handling negatives - about $3.
Tom
At 23:10 1999/11/25 -0700, Alan Bland wrote:
...
>Yesterday I had a chance to observe one of the lab-boys at one
>of these 1-hour labs. He yanked a freshly-developed roll of
>negatives from the AGFA machine with his bare hands, slapped
>it onto a manual cutting device, and rapidly cut the negatives
>into strips of 4 (much faster than I would have been able to
>line up the strips). If the machine didn't scratch the film,
>the way he ripped through it cutting the negatives probably
>did. I've never done any darkroom work, but I always imagined
>it to involve careful handling of film by the edges, perhaps
>even wearing rubber gloves.
>
>Alan Bland
>mailto:gordo@xxxxxxxxxx
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