38 Frames Per Roll? How about 39?

[brbo]

Tape an extra length of leader and you’ll get 2 more frames.

But I only "wasted" 7 sprocket holes worth of film, that's not even 1 frame...

 

[Buzz-01]

Just got 39 frames on Fomapan 100 with my Infinity Stylus. It always manages to use the film more efficient than I can on any of my manual OM cameras.

OTOH, also just finished a roll of Rollei Retro 400S in my EOS 50e, which stubbornly takes 36 frames on any 36exp roll, blindly wasting frames 00 and 0 and not even trying to see if there is any film available beyond frame 36...

 

[Tomro]

On all my Canons, after 36exps the camera just ends the roll. On any of my Nikons I can go to 37/28 easily.

 

[Buzz-01]

On all my Canons, after 36exps the camera just ends the roll. On any of my Nikons I can go to 37/28 easily.

Indeed, IIRC my EOS100 does exactly the same.

 

[Tomro]

Indeed, IIRC my EOS100 does exactly the same.

I can testify for the EOS 3, 10, 50 (two of them) and the RT (I got two as well).

 

[brbo]

My EOS 3 did the same. Don't have it anymore so I can't try, but based on the pictures of the EOS 3 DX code reader contacts (it only has two pins for reading the second line of DX code), even manipulating the DX code on the canister will not give you more than 36 shots. If you would set your DX code on the canister to 48 shots the camera would read that as 12, 64 shots would read as 24 and 72 shots as 36.

Canon must've had a secret deal with Fuji and Kodak

 

[gone]

My Nikon N8008s would rewind at 36 exposures whether I liked it or not. That was aggravating, as there was no way to stop it short of removing the batteries mid roll. Half the time it would also give just half the frame on the last shot. I never figured out why.

 

[benjiboy]

All these penny pinching methods pale into insignificance, when you're shooting paid work and the film pulls out of the cassette and you have no way of removing it from the camera
I speak from bitter experience.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

Agree, I like the RB67's 10 pictures per roll. Load it, shoot it, lick it, stick it, done. I can shoot it all in one short session instead of thinking of things to do for the rest of a 135-36 roll.

I shoot an RB67 and the problem I have is because I bracket each shot for three total per shot, the tenth shot I can't bracket. So I usually just bracket the last for 4 shots.

The other problem is that with my new Epson V850 scanner, you can't put three shots in the film holder like I was able to with the V600. Only 2. So I have to cut everything 2,2,2,2,1,1 which makes it difficult to load the holder, store the shots in plastic sheets, and scan in threes including both bracketed shots at the same time. What was Epson thinking when they designed the V850 holders?

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

My Nikon N8008s would rewind at 36 exposures whether I liked it or not. That was aggravating, as there was no way to stop it short of removing the batteries mid roll. Half the time it would also give just half the frame on the last shot. I never figured out why.

My Nikon 6006 allows me to manually start the rewind. I guess Nikon did it to prevent people from putting the camera away and then forgetting there's film in there and then inadvertently opening the camera to load it and exposing the film already in there.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

All these penny pinching methods pale into insignificance, when you're shooting paid work and the film pulls out of the cassette and you have no way of removing it from the camera
I speak from bitter experience.

It's like licking a popsicle stick when it's all gone.

 

[Huss]

On all my Canons, after 36exps the camera just ends the roll. On any of my Nikons I can go to 37/28 easily.

My F6 only shoots 36. So annoying when I develop the film and see there was easily enough room for 2 more shots.

 

[Tomro]

I got the F5. Always can go beyond 36exps

 

[Huss]

All these penny pinching methods pale into insignificance, when you're shooting paid work and the film pulls out of the cassette and you have no way of removing it from the camera
I speak from bitter experience.

How did you do that? I assume an old manual wind camera and you weren't paying attention. Maybe thought you had a 36exp roll when it was a 24?

 

[benjiboy]

How did you do that? I assume an old manual wind camera and you weren't paying attention. Maybe thought you had a 36exp roll when it was a 24?

It's a long time ago, but I was shooting a wedding and must have wound on too much film when loading the camera, fortunately I had a changing bag with me and a black plastic film case, so I could put the film in the film case without exposing it. It was a 36 exposure Ilford H.P 5.

 

[Huss]

It's a long time ago, but I was shooting a wedding and must have wound on too much film when loading the camera, fortunately I had a changing bag with me and a black plastic film case, so I could put the film in the film case without exposing it. It was a 36 exposure Ilford H.P 5.

Impressed that you had a changing bag with you!

 

[benjiboy]

Impressed that you had a changing bag with you!

I always carry a small changing bag in my camera bag, even today, because if you shoot a film you are carrying "a hostage to fate", I've been a photographer for more than fifty years, and IMHO it's one of the differences between a photographer and a "happy snapper.

 

[Huss]

I always carry a small changing bag in my camera bag, even today, because if you shoot a film you are carrying "a hostage to fate", I've been a photographer for more than fifty years, and IMHO it's one of the differences between a photographer and a "happy snapper.

So carrying a changing bag improves your compositions?

 

[Sirius Glass]

So carrying a changing bag improves your compositions?

It is called preparing for any difficulties or problems. Also called "Be Prepared". Evidentially your were never a Boy Scout.

 

[Huss]

It is called preparing for any difficulties or problems. Also called "Be Prepared". Evidentially your were never a Boy Scout.

So, it doesn't help your compositions then. Just trying to figure out what a photographer is.

Now I know it is defined by how much stuff you schlep around.

 

[NB23]

Go for 40!

Easy hack: tape 3 or 4 frames worth of film to your actual film.
Load and advance 3 frames. Start shooting.

Actually 0 frames wasted. Zero.

Boom.

 

[Roger Cole]

Am I the only person who prefers shorter rolls? (from both a developing and shooting perspective, I find it annoying to deal with 36 frame rolls).

In any case, the answer is above.

No you aren’t. It takes me forever to get through 36 frames. My style is far better suited to the 10-15 frames I get on 120 with my various MF cameras.