[pure-silver] JandC Pro 100 and 620 film
- From: "Koch, Gerald" <gkoch02@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 09:45:55 -0400
I recently purchased 10 rolls of JandC Pro 100 film to play around with.
This film is made in China and is a classic emulsion. The first thing
that I noticed when the spool was unwrappped was that the flanges on the
spool were rather thin. Rather than being a bad thing it tempted me to
try putting a roll into my very first camera, a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye
circa 1950. (Yes, I am serious dating myself. ;-)) Now this camera was
designed to accept 620 film but the Pro 100 spool fit without any
difficulty and wound correctly onto a 620 spool. The Hawkeye has no
exposure controls beyond two shutter modes I and T, but the developed
film yielded excellent negatives from EV 12 to EV 15 when developed in
Divided D-23.
There is one curious thing about this film. There is a hole in the
paper backing about 2 inches past the last frame. It is the same size
as the holes in 3-ring binder paper and is centered on the paper. As
this hole passes under the ruby window the film is fogged. Since this
is past the last frame this is really not a problem but I wonder what
purpose this hole serves.
There was one other problem, rather an annoyance, in that it was hard to
see the information on the backing through the ruby window. There is
not enough contrast between the rather grayish printing and the black
backing paper. It looks like the white ink has been well diluted to
save money.
All in all I was pleased with this first try with this film.
If you have any 620 film cameras that you would like to put some film
through you might try this film. I can't guarantee that it will fit all
620 cameras but at $1.39 it is far cheaper than the respooled 120 film
sold as 620 size.
Jerry
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