The dull side of an assembled slide?

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I have been scanning slide film for a while now, until now they have
all been strips of four which I have batch scanned with my Coolscan
LS5000. Now I am looking at 2000 slides that are assembled in frames
(geez... how will I ever get a decent workflow with that? :D) Anyhow I
am curious to find out how, since slide film has a dull side that side
is supposed to be down in the scanner, you can tell which is the dull
side when you have slides like these. It's hard or rather impossble to
tell which one is the dull side just by looking.

Since most of the slides were put into frames by the ppl that
developed the film I am wondering if they might have thougth of this?
For example could the front side of a kodak slide (the one with the
kodak logo), be the top (not dull) side?

I would appreciate any hints, thougths about this!
 
Stormfrog said:
I have been scanning slide film for a while now, until now they have
all been strips of four which I have batch scanned with my Coolscan
LS5000. Now I am looking at 2000 slides that are assembled in frames
(geez... how will I ever get a decent workflow with that? :D) Anyhow I
am curious to find out how, since slide film has a dull side that side
is supposed to be down in the scanner, you can tell which is the dull
side when you have slides like these. It's hard or rather impossble to
tell which one is the dull side just by looking.

Since most of the slides were put into frames by the ppl that
developed the film I am wondering if they might have thougth of this?
For example could the front side of a kodak slide (the one with the
kodak logo), be the top (not dull) side?

I would appreciate any hints, thougths about this!
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The Kodak logo is on the side that when hand held to a light the image is
correctly orientated. Emulsion (dull) is the same side as the logo. You view
the image through the base of the film.

It is easy to tell if there is any text in the image.
 
Or you can hold the slide up almost flat along your line of sight to a
light source. One side will be shiny ( you may see some reflections) and
the other will be dull or even have patterns in it. On the Nikon, it's
shiny side up ;-) as you put the slide in.

Frank
 
I have been scanning slide film for a while now, until now they have
all been strips of four which I have batch scanned with my Coolscan
LS5000. Now I am looking at 2000 slides that are assembled in frames
(geez... how will I ever get a decent workflow with that? :D) Anyhow I
am curious to find out how, since slide film has a dull side that side
is supposed to be down in the scanner, you can tell which is the dull
side when you have slides like these. It's hard or rather impossble to
tell which one is the dull side just by looking.

Since most of the slides were put into frames by the ppl that
developed the film I am wondering if they might have thougth of this?
For example could the front side of a kodak slide (the one with the
kodak logo), be the top (not dull) side?

I would appreciate any hints, thougths about this!
Click to expand...

I hold them at an angle to the light. Normally there is quite a
difference between the two sides when viewed from that angle.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com
 
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