Desmolicious wrote:
Very cool. How did you get your center border so narrow? PP or did it come out of the camera like that?
Mine gives much thicker borders between shots (consistent but thicker).
PP. The 35mm negative holder for my Coolscan 9000 crops off most of the clear area of the film as well as the edge of one frame if I try to scan adjacent half-frame negatives as a single image. (Duh! While writing that sentence I realised that I could use the 6x9 glass negative holder but I prefer the way I’ve done it anyway). So I merged the two adjacent frames and established the 10-pixel center border in Photoshop then added the other borders and captions in Lightroom with LR/Mogrify.
No doubt this approach contravenes the traditional method of presenting half-frame diptychs/triptychs—displaying as a single image multiple adjacent frames from the same roll of film with their thick borders intact—but I can live with that. I’m even fine with the greater heresy of creating diptychs or triptychs from frames widely separated in time or space and from separate rolls of film. (I can do this without any sense of guilt because, back in the day, I filed out the negative carriers of my Beseler enlarger so I could print the borders which proved I hadn’t cropped the image. I’ve paid my dues!)