[rollei_list] Re: RPA... and Rollei plate adaptor

From Carlos Manuel: >

> I also would like to experiment loading film sheets to the camera and
> developing them, these are new things to me.
Believe me or not, Carlos, but this 6.5x9 plate adaptor accessory is, after the ever-ready case, the UV filter and the selenium meter, one of the first R-TLR accessories I bought 32 years ago !
The user's manual can be summarised as follows (not for Carlos who owns the complete Prochnow, Parker, Evans Rollei-Bibles, plus the whole archive of this list ;-) but for other readers following the same route ;-)
- yes, do use 6.5x9cm films or plates i.e. 3-1/2 by 2-1/2 inches, not the "American" size 2x3" (2-1/4 by 3-1/4) - do not forget the intermediate spacer-plate for holding cut film if you do not use glass plates ;-) 
- do not forget to check that the film plate back is.. back when inserting !
- do not forget to release the film plate in order to bring it to the film gate and bring it back after taking the picture; - and... do not forget to take the dark slide off before bringing the film to the film gate and taking the picture; and to slide it back before re-insertng the dark slide and taking the film holder off the camera ;-)
In order to keep my light-tight plushes or felts as fresh as possible, I keep my empty film holers with the dark slide removed and I do not keep a film holder in the film back (this last thing would be a really weird things, but with Rollei TLRs everything looks weird nowdays ;-)
In order to process the films, at the beginning I simply used my faithful Paterson 135/120 tank, without the film reel but with the central light-tight column, you can place two 6.5x9 films back-to-back on both sides of the column. The only problem is that nothing prevents the film to slide "up" when reversing the tank upside down. So be generous with the amount of developer you use.
I do not know the Domi-Plan tank but I now have a Combi-Plan which accommodates various formats from 6.5x9 to 4x5" including 9x12 and even the "small" 3x4 polaroids 665 films (discontinued ! sigh !) by cheating on spacer rings. (in the good old days this tank was named : the Gepe Combi Plan, now it is known as the HP Combi Plan, not for HP the former pocket calculator company but for "HP Marketing", the foto distributor famous German brands in the States, actually a subsidiary of... the Swedish GEPE company !)
all the best and have fun with 6.5x9 film, another of the Lost Causes of Photography in the XXI-st century ! ;-) 
--
Emmanuel



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