tpb> If I'm not mistaken, DX coding allows for coding a film canister for 72 shots.
tpb> If so, that means one could put *at least* 72 shots in a
tpb> blank canister if you buy film by meters (17 meters is usual I
tpb> think).
AFAIK Ilford used to make a film on thin base for journalists, it
allow
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Not unless you use ester-thin base film from Kodak, I'm not even sure that
it's still available, (it was a relatively low speed B&W if I recall
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Not unless you use ester-thin base film from Kodak, I'm not even sure
that it's still available, (it was a relatively low speed B&W if I
recall correctly).
You could spool 72 frames into a standard cassette. Tri-X could safely
go to about 40.
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>> It would have to be pretty darned thin film.
>> Most I ever
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No, the counter will just stay at 36 which I don't mind, really (in this specific case
of course) on my SuperA at least.
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It would have to be pretty darned thin film.
Most I ever got into a bulk-loaded roll was 42 shots before it
started
binding. And I'm not sure I'd do that again. :-)
If you're
Okay, but let me ask...what do you do (assuming mechanical, or more to
the point, "not digital" cameras,) with the frame counter? Even if it
DID go around twice, there will be confusion when you pass the S or
start place, and the couple of empty frames before the 1 shows.
Then there's the potent
It would have to be pretty darned thin film.
Most I ever got into a bulk-loaded roll was 42 shots before it started
binding. And I'm not sure I'd do that again. :-)
If you're developing your own film, even the 36-shot rolls are about
as long as you want to be dealing with in the darkroom. With the
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