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An Extra Frame or Two with 35mm Film.
This may be an old trick, but I have only just heard it from a stranger I saw taking some photos. locally.
After swapping a few photography yarns and a bit of nostalgia, he told me that he likes to load a new 35mm film in complete darkness. He feeds the tongue of the film into the take up spool in daylight, then off with the light. He then places the cassette into it proper location in the dark. The film unwinds in the dark as he moves the cassette to its space and the only fogged bit of film is the tongue and possibly an inch. This gives him one or two extra frames according to the camera in use. Cheers.
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37 or even 38 frames are not unusual.
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With Fomapan I always get 38 bframes, with every camera I own, execpt for my 2 Leica's, a 111c and 111f, with them I always get 39 with the Leicas, for soke reason
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A useful trick, Nat. This should also work, I think, even for those of us with auto-wind to frame 1.
I say this as I presume the auto-wind moves the film forward the same distance each time and that distance has a built-in margin to account for the fact that most users start pulling the film at the cassette holder end and thus waste a couple of frames but the way you describe "fools" the camera which only pulls the same distance Any flaws in this logic, anybody? Mike |
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Not with every camera
There are some cameras notably the Nikon F3 would not expose the film until it had been wound on by 2 frames and most of the AF models auto-wind on by 2 frames so that frame number 1 was shown in the indicator. I don't know of any of them that could be over-ridden
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I knew someone who loaded his Leica under the bedclothes to get 39 frames. As a student I was given a bulk roll of Plus-X which I loaded in the college darkroom using old cassettes, in the days when they opened with a tap on the bench and could be re-used, filled to capacity so always more than 36 shots.
This must be a reason why standard 35mm neg sleeves hold 42 frames, though I have a Durst neg binder whose sleeves hold only 36. |
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And Paterson contact printing frames only allow 6 strips of 6 = 36 exposures on a sheet of 10" x 8" paper, so I presume the extra 2 frames wouldn't be included?
Terry S |
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My problem is always the opposite: trying to finish the film so that I can see what the earlier pictures look like. I confess I quite often waste the last few frames in my impatience. I load my own too, so you might think I should simply load shorter films (e.g. 20 exp). But then I need to change films more often, and by sod's law this often falls just when things are excitingly photogenic and all the digital guys are still clicking away. Can't seem to win.
Mr Barnack's concept was to use trivial lengths of a material that was produced in huge quantities for the film industry. Affairs have changed a good deal that we now worry about squeezing in a couple of extra frames, although actually it's still only £0.15/frame. |
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