[pure-silver] Re: 10m long 35mm tank wanted
- From: "Stein" <rstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 08:50:13 +0800
Dear Tom,
Long film in 35mm....can't be too different from my encounter with The
Film From Hell.
I used to have several 70mm backs for my Hasselblad, and jolly useful
they were too. This was in the days when you could get 70mm film straight
from B&H and the local lab could run it through their roller processor and
dinosaurs roamed the earth. I saw an advertisement for Plus X film in 70mm
perforated for something like a 100metre roll. Good price. I had a Linhof
loading machine and lots of cassettes so I thought I could load my own.
So I could, and it reeled off the spool into the cassettes very well
and through the camera smartly. But when I tried to reel it off onto a Hewes
SS reel for procesing I discovered that this ex-aero mylar based film had a
life and mind of its own. In the dark, all by touch, nothing worked.
Nothing. After a half hour I reeled it back onto the cassette and went out
looking for three plastic buckets. Dev, Stop and Fix. Back in the dark I
unceremoniously tipped the whole of the film in a giant tangle into the Dev
and sloshed it at intervals. Then the other two solutions. Then a wash and
so forth.
My plan was to develop it regardless of scratched emulsion and ruined
negatives and then pile it onto the driveway and jump on it - more as mental
relief than art - but I was surprised how little damage I had done to the
film by this treatment. Most negs were quite printable.
I have since learned that this method of processing was quite common for
aerial survey work in the Northwest.
Cost? 3 x 80 cent plastic buckets.
Uncle Dick
PS: Plan ahead. Where are you goung to hang this sprocketed anaconda to let
it dry?
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