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30 Exposure rolls

MattKing said:
The sheets that Charles describes require over-sized binders, which is why they don't work for me.
You also can't squeeze them on to an 8x10 contact sheet - you need 8.5"x 11" photo paper.
But they certainly work well.
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I love them because I cut my 35mm film into strips of 6 - the Nikon ES-2 film copier holds a strip of 6 - and because I always get at least 38 exposures per roll. Unless I am using something crummy like an F6, F4, F100 which wastes a cr@p tonne of film loading the camera.
 

I tend to get at least 37 out of my F6. I got 38 out of the Tmax I shot over the weekend. Which is frustrating as all get out as I use those stupid 6x6 print file sheets. Another benefit of my 20-24 shot self loads is that there's an extra slot for remnants on the commercially loaded rolls.

I should track down the bigger sheets. Didn't realize they had them. I have an oversized binder for prints as I ran more than a few on 8x12 paper last year and they don't fit in the standard binder, I can just get another I guess. Everything I shoot regularly pulls more than 36 shots from a commercial roll and I have taken to 1 sheet in every 5 or 6 being for remnants when I don't do any 24 rolls.
 
Add two frames if you include some leader at the beginning. The leader tells you whether development was over/ok/under, so I like to keep part of it.
Now your 42-frame sheet holds 40. I got 39 shots on Pan F last week. Retinas are frugal with film if you don't stop when the counter hits 1.

Mark Overton
 
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