Recent content by didordure

I am making a cutting table with guides and levers around te cutter box to align the film properly. And yes, I have film with perfs that didn't like the half a millimeter of uncalculated varnish coating. A some point the film bent and one of the cutter didn't cut properly. But my guess is that...

Yes. Thanks. As i am not in a big hurry i a searching for cristal silver nitrate. There are french suppliers that sell at almsost 1.1€ per grams but they only sell to pro photographers. I am to participate in a movie festival soon and hope to get some contacts, that is : if the one i already...

Hello. I am between Toulouse and les Pyrénées. I have not yet found à way to buy silver nitrate... this is because i am not à professional, but i have some leads. As i am in several projects at the same time, while i figure out how to obtain silver nitrate i am diving into 16mm and double8 and...

Hello, I am fairly new to 70mm :) but there are different paper roll formats. This is the first commercial system that appeared around 1900 to compete with the dry/wet plates etc... and keep on outliving other formats (at least 120). The 35mm has an aluminium box instead of paper (first it was...

Ok, understood. I didn't think there were so many specification, lightproofness aside. Good to know before ruining a film. And yes I don't have anything at the moment. It's only the beginning for me 😅. Thanks

Yes I am from France. I have found a guy nearby that sold 5 linhof 9x12 dual plate holders for a few € and an aunt gave me a box full of 9x12 from his great grand father (she has 2 more boxes) to digitalize and among all that dusty plates there is also unused plates. So I should be good for a...

Hi, I am reconnecting with film photography these past few month. I have been working in movie theaters several years but I really like when the image remain still. I only know 35mm and with a lot of different cameras. My favorite (but now stolen) was the praktika BMS and the 50mm that went...

This is very interesting. Thank you. I was wondering, if you don't have a paper from a developed roll, what would you use instead?