[rollei_list] Re: Rollei 35 and variable spacing on film
- From: eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx
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- Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:56:59 +0000
Thank you for the thorough answer Emmanuel. Overlapping didn't happen, and did
not appear to be a risk - cutting the negs apart was a little tricky in some
places. I looked into this further, and noticed that the take up spool allows
the lead end of film to go through to the other side of the spool, distorting
the roll of exposed film into an oval, which might pull the film at uneven
rates as it turned?
Kansas for Kodachrome: Could it be the same lab that's taken on Fuji's mailers?
Elias
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From: bigler@xxxxxxxx
> > Hello all, I processed my first B&W film through my Rollei 35, and
> > all went well enough (considering my skill level). Posted a couple
> > on the list's flickr page. The spacing between frames varied; is
> > that typical? Thanks, E.
>
> In 25+ years of use of a Rollei 35 SE I've never experienced
> overlapping images with it. But, yes, spacing may vary like for any
> manual-wind 35mm camera; my experience with the rollei 35 is that
> variable spacing between frames never yields actual overlapping.
>
> I had read in the past that for mounting 35mm slides, labs had to use
> a kind of manual indexing/notching of frames to prepare the job for the
> mounting machine, since no 35mm camera was capable of a perfect spacing. I
> would expect that today modern automation and pattern recognition
> techniques could allow a machine to properly center an image on a 35mm
> film with variable spacing ! (another problem that digital users will
> never know about ;-)
>
> With my Rollei 35, I have done and still do 95% of color slides, mostly
> Kodachrome.
>
> Last March when I visited Franke & Heidecke I had a Kodachrome 64 film
> loaded inside the Rollei 35 and no flash, no tripod so I had to finish
> the film hand-held when we visited the inside of the factory ;-)
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/43175600@N00/274667445/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/43175600@N00/274668642/
>
>
> -------------------
> BTW for kodachrome-o-philes : the fact that my European,
> process-paid kodachromes are now processed in Kansas has virtually no
> incidence on the delay ; quality is still as before as expected but I
> preferred the plastic mounts from the Lausanne times to the present
> cardboard mounts, bringing me back to the sixties, when there was a
> busy Kodachrome lab in France :-(
> ----------------------
>
> So in 25+ years with my Rollei 35 I do not remember of any problem
> with overlapping frames with Kodachrome. I have no idea whether the
> winding mechanism is the same for all R-35 models (1966->1981), but
> I'm sure that this can eventually be serviced and repaired easily if
> needed.
>
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> Emmanuel BIGLER
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