127 film bulk rolling - my best practice

[Photosandpotatoes]

I can buy 46mm bulk rolls from Astrum, I made about 30 rolls of 127 during the summer, not gonna do that again because the paper that I can find is utter garbage.

If you’re still looking for some in a few months, let me know I can get you some when I buy film again in November/december. I would need to do the price calculations again since import duty increased, but I believe for 100 feet it would be about $150-200 for 100 ft, depending on the film.

Oh I will! And actually I have a lot of backing paper and spools now — I recall we were going to do a transaction months ago but I had so little.

I bought my Agfa Portrait 160 from eBay. 46mm bulk rolls show up once in a while: they were used for long roll school portrait cameras and sometimes people still have New Old Stocks. I found the Agfa film kept well in general, and quite usable after so many years.

Once that is depleted, I will resort to slicing down 120 film using the FCK127 kit. I have an extra FCK127 kit in case you want it.

Yeah I fear I spend too much time of ebay… good to know about the Agfa longevity! I tried some old Ansco all weather which was bleak to say the least, but somewhat salvageable. At least I got metal spools and backing paper!