film-side

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Now let me describe how to go to work. I take the negative and place it in the printing-frame, holding it in its place with a couple of tacks, film-side next the lens, just as in printing; then stand the printing frame on its edge on the flat board, and place the ground glass in front of it when I say in front of it, I mean not between the negative and lens, but between the light and the negative.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885