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I just developed my first roll of 120 last night. Kodak 400TX. The camera works

Anyway, on the bottom edge of the film are the frame numbers 1-12 and little arrows. On the top is Kodak, 400tx, and another set of numbers, 41-53 (if I recall correctly). They have roughly the spacing of the frame numbers. What are they for? Do they mean anything?
 

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These numbers are for ordering prints from MF negs. IIRC, the 41-50's correspond to 645 format. The 1-12 to the square format.
 

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Christopher Walrath said:
These numbers are for ordering prints from MF negs. IIRC, the 41-50's correspond to 645 format. The 1-12 to the square format.
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You are correct. I have worked with square and now mostly the 645 format and the numbers do line up in that fashion.
 

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Ahh, makes sense. Seemed odd that it starts at 41, but whatever.

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It fails me but it almost seems that it was in fact a Kodak piece of literature that set about the custom.
 
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I didn't find this in my previous search:
(there was a url link here which no longer exists)
 

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Do Fuji's films have the same numbering?
 
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It doesn't sound like it, but I don't know for sure. It's not mentioned in their data sheets.
 
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