A method for transmitting the scenes orientation of a film strip to a photo laboratory apparatus

摘要

A method is described for communicating the scene orientation of an exposed strip of left or right hand load photographic film to photo finishing equipment to enable imaging parameters to be set automatically which includes the steps of splicing a first exposed strip of film to a second exposed strip of film with a film-splicing label, encoding the label for left or right hand load of the second film with low resolution indicia, and feeding the spliced first and second films to a film- splicing label reader for reading the code and automatically setting the parameters for normal or inverted scene orientation. A film-splicing label encoded with indicia for identifying the scene orientation and a method for splicing strips of film with the label are also provided.