Amateur Photographer - Clearout of Files?

[Zuiko]

Amateur Photographer magazine must be clearing out their files. A few days ago I received a returned submission of photographs that they have held for at least 7 years, probably longer, which I had completely forgotten.

It was a trip down memory lane for me, not least because of how neatly and precisely the transparencies were attached to black card mounts using Scotch Magic Tape, something that I haven't been able to do for a long while!

Ah, the nostalgia of it all!

[mstphoto]

Re: Amateur Photographer - Clearout of Files?

Aye, Nostalgias not what it used to be

Remember mounting our slides in glass mounts to send away for our Camera Club competitions all safely wrapped and packaged only for them to be returned in an ordinary envelope and our works of art all scratched by broken glass

Mike

[David M]

Re: Amateur Photographer - Clearout of Files?

Black card mounts were a bit flashy, I just used trannie filing sheets for my submissions.

[Zuiko]

Re: Amateur Photographer - Clearout of Files?

Black card mounts were a bit flashy, I just used trannie filing sheets for my submissions.

The black card mounts I used came with their own filing sheets, 8 to a page. The mounts were all the same size, with different apertures for 6x6, 6x4.5 and 135 film. I'd say classy rather than flashy.

[David M]

Re: Amateur Photographer - Clearout of Files?

The black card mounts I used came with their own filing sheets, 8 to a page. The mounts were all the same size, with different apertures for 6x6, 6x4.5 and 135 film. I'd say classy rather than flashy.

But what about the 5x4 dupes.

[Zuiko]

Re: Amateur Photographer - Clearout of Files?

But what about the 5x4 dupes.

I always sent originals, which is why I liked to shoot several of each scene if possible. I lost remarkably few and even the published ones, which were often returned in a bit of a state, usually cleaned up pretty well with a bit of TLC. Not a problem we have now with digital, but it's a long time since I submitted anything anyway.

[David M]

Re: Amateur Photographer - Clearout of Files?

I've had quite a few trannies lost or damaged. Certain originals have never left my files. Olympus Japan published dupes, one of which was taken with a Tamron lens.

[mm500]

Re: Amateur Photographer - Clearout of Files?

Wow this has really brought a lot back for me - including the incredible care taken mounting transparencies (I used to use OM cameras for 35mm and Mamiya 6X7).

I always used to get slides duplicated though it was always actually worrying whether you'd lose work in the post as you're sending originals.

I also remember the frustration of finding a negative or transparency scratched or watermarked.

I seem to remember it was widely recommended not to send glass mounted transparencies.

Mal.

[mstphoto]

Re: Amateur Photographer - Clearout of Files?

I seem to remember it was widely recommended not to send glass mounted transparencies.

Mal.

The SPF (Scottish Photographic Federation) stipulated that competition slide entries had to be glass mounted. Our entries were always sent off in a transparency box and "overly" wrapped in bubble wrap.
Many a time we just got them sent back in an envelope

Mike

[mm500]

Re: Amateur Photographer - Clearout of Files?

Glass mounted was a real pain - another 4 sides to make sure were clean, free from dust and smears etc......

[Zuiko]

Re: Amateur Photographer - Clearout of Files?

I only ever glass mounted my slides for projection, it held them nice and flat with no popping. I never would have sent them in the post!

[Naughty Nigel]

Re: Amateur Photographer - Clearout of Files?

Happy memories.

I used to write quite a lot for one of IPC's titles, and submission of copy and photographs was a real trial.

You would have thought that the advent of email would have made life easier but apparently there was an incompatibility between Quark Express used for publishing in those days, and Word or plain text, so copy either had to be sent by post or faxed, so that it could be typed up again! Likewise floppy disks were useless!

Photographs were initially scanned by the Editorial team for design and layout purposes, but had to be re-scanned at higher resolution on a drum scanner by the printers, which meant that copy and photographs had to be 'put to bed' at least two weeks before publication!

My photographs were always returned in good order, but it always took several weeks for them to come back.

[David M]

Re: Amateur Photographer - Clearout of Files?

Happy memories.

I used to write quite a lot for one of IPC's titles, and submission of copy and photographs was a real trial.

You would have thought that the advent of email would have made life easier but apparently there was an incompatibility between Quark Express used for publishing in those days, and Word or plain text, so copy either had to be sent by post or faxed, so that it could be typed up again! Likewise floppy disks were useless!

Photographs were initially scanned by the Editorial team for design and layout purposes, but had to be re-scanned at higher resolution on a drum scanner by the printers, which meant that copy and photographs had to be 'put to bed' at least two weeks before publication!

My photographs were always returned in good order, but it always took several weeks for them to come back.

I remember sitting in an editors office talking to him while he threw unreadable submissions on CDs in the bin.