[rollei_list] Re: Test-roll-film for magazines
- From: Uwe Wolfgang Steinke <paintingwithlenses@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:27:27 +0200
Hi John,
thanks so much, sounds like an easy way to do it myself:)
Uwe
2012/9/26 John Wild <JWild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Ewe,
>
> I use the backing paper from a home developed roll of film and use a white
> chinagraph pencil to mark the black surface. It is accurate enough to check
> the function. Alternatively, fix some masking tape along the length where
> the film should be – you can see the start from the tape – and run that
> through. The masking tape would be approximately the same thickness as
> film. The length of the film – without actually measuring one - is about
> 13 plus frames plus 11x5mm = approx 790mm.
>
> John
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> On 26/09/2012 16:26, "Uwe Wolfgang Steinke" <paintingwithlenses@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Hi
> has anyone tried to make a testfilm - only paper - to check if a magazine
> transports right?
> I'd just put it in to my different magazines, take 12 photos and draw 2
> lines with a pencil on the paper (on one top, one on the bottom) after
> taking the magazine off and removing the slide.
> After the "film" is through, I'd unroll it and see whether the distances
> are good or not.
>
> My question now is, how long exactly should the papers be and how thick?
> Or wouldn't that work at all?
>
> Uwe
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Uwe Wolfgang Steinke
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