35mm reloadable film cartridges

[alanrockwood]

Are there any current 35mm films are sold in reloadable cartridges?

 

[Stanislav Boščík]

You can buy empty. Foma sells DX coded cartridges for 100, 200, 400 ASA. https://fomaobchod.cz/en/photographersrequirements/metalsnapcapdxcoded/

 

[AgX]

Good to know, as AP and Kaiser only offer plastic ones anymore.

 

[AgX]

Adox CHS 100
Adox HR 50
Adox IR-HR Pro
Adox Scala 160
Adox Silvermax

are all photographed in a reloadable (plastic) cassette.

As a newer type again is photograped in a crimped cassette, the use of the reloadable one may have been limited.
Inquire at Adox.

 

[lantau]

I bought two rolls of Adox HR 50 to test for IR photography. The one I used and developed seems to be a metal cassette. I certainly cannot open it with my hand. (I did remove the film with one of those pulling tools)

It seems Adox has access to proper cassettes again.

 

[Bud Hamblen]

If you pull the film out of the slot instead of popping the end cap of an ordinary cassette you can reuse the cassette if you leave enough of the tail end of the film attached. Tape the reload to the old tail. I don't know how many uses you can get from the cassette.

 

[lantau]

That is why I still have quite a few unused metal reloadables around. There is plenty supply from normal rolls, which I reuse.

 

[pentaxuser]

You can buy empty. Foma sells DX coded cartridges for 100, 200, 400 ASA. https://fomaobchod.cz/en/photographersrequirements/metalsnapcapdxcoded/

Thanks, I never knew that Foma did empty DX coded cassettes in these three speeds. However I always thought that their cassettes with film in them were not coded. If this is still the case, it seems strange that Foma doesn't used coded cassettes for all its films or has it changed its policy and now codes all film cassettes?

Thanks.

pentaxuser

 

[petrk]

There is no DX coded film from FOMA on the market AFAIK. These empty cartridges are their new product.

 

[pentaxuser]

There is no DX coded film from FOMA on the market AFAIK. These empty cartridges are their new product.

Thanks. If Foma can code empty cassettes then I wonder how long it will be before they code all their film cassettes as well? I suppose that it depends on whether the coded cassettes are a "special product" which are outsourced and thus not part of a volume production line within Foma. If this is the case then the cost of volume cassette coding may be too much and thus increase the cost of Foma film cassettes to the point where Foma loses its competitive advantage over the likes of Ilford and Kodak.

Most cameras have the means of setting the speed anyway but some "point and shoot" ones do not, so I suppose the market for empty coded cassettes is limited

pentaxuser

 

[Agulliver]

Interesting....when I bought some Adox Silvermax two years ago it came in a metal, non-reusable cassette.

I've had Foma 100 and 200 in metal DX coded cassettes, and 400 in metal non-DX cassettes. These new reusable cassettes are a new product for Foma and if I didn't already have 30 or so good plastic cassettes (some with DX codes) I'd definitely be looking at those.

For the record, the 10 exposure "Power Geek" C41 film available in the UK at Poundland stores comes in plastic, non-DX coded reusable cassettes.

*most* cameras either don't use DX codes in the first place or can be manually set. However....as much as I love my Praktica BX20S cameras, they only have the ability to set 25, 50, 100, 200, 400 without DX codes. This is achieved by the compensation dial....so if I were to load DX coded cassettes at 400, I could instead select 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 which is a decent spread of speeds. In practise I bought adhesive DX coding strips from Firstcall Photographic and have coded about half of my cassettes at 200 or 400. Some I bought already coded at various speeds.