[pure-silver] Re: 10m long 35mm tank wanted


----- Original Message ----- From: "Stein" <rstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 5:50 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: 10m long 35mm tank wanted


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?
I wonder if there are still Morse machines available on eBay? These were made for processing 16 and 35 mm motion picture film in 50 or 100 foot lengths. There was also a machine with large sprial reels, the name escapes me at the moment. These were made originally for making tests in motion picture production but were fairly widely available.
Drying can be done on racks as in the old movie days.

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

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