6.5cm x 9cm Film

[Pioneer]

Is anyone selling this or am I going to have to start cutting my own?

 

[Nodda Duma]

I sell it as a stock dry plate size. It sells well.

freestyle has some too from Arista. In general, look for 2.25x3.25 size.

https://www.freestylephoto.biz/category/2-Film/Black-and-White-Film?attr[]=1-50


For color... 120 format cuts down to that size nicely.

 

[JPD]

ADOX CHS 100 II is available in 6,5 x 9. https://www.fotoimpex.com/films/ado...-25-blatt-65x9-cm-255x355-inch-25-sheets.html

 

[Paul Howell]

B&H has Foma, Arista, and Ilford, in terms of price Arista 50 sheets for $44 or so dollars. I just ordred from B&H, Arista 400.

 

[Pioneer]

Thanks. I have a box of your dry plates that fits perfectly and I will be ordering more shortly.

This is an old Zeiss Ikon folding camera and 3.25x4.25 just falls out of the holders. It has to the real European 6.5x9cm.

I did find some Adox CHS 100 in true 6.5x9 for sale at Fotoimpex. I may just order 25 sheets of that though I have never had the privilege of using that particular film stock yet.

I will check Freestyle.

Thanks

 

[Pioneer]

All I have been able to find in the United States has been 2.25x3.25. That is actually smaller film and doesn't work with these older film holders.

 

[Pioneer]

I just priced it from Fotoimpex. Shipping costs more than the film.

I guess I will be shooting Jason's plates for a while yet.

 

[awty]

With my plate holders with the film inserts, I just use a piecs of cellophane tape on the top of the insert to hold the smaller film in. Thats what I do with my 9x12 film. Helps if its ortho film.
I have some old Kodak film I want to try out using my rollie sheet film holders will see if that works.....need tp make a camera firtst to take it.

 

[Pioneer]

With my plate holders with the film inserts, I just use a piecs of cellophane tape on the top of the insert to hold the smaller film in. Thats what I do with my 9x12 film. Helps if its ortho film.
I have some old Kodak film I want to try out using my rollie sheet film holders will see if that works.....need tp make a camera firtst to take it.

That is exactly what I have done in the past but it is a PITA and it doesn't always work right. I have had the tape catch on the metal dark slides. It is just so much easier to use the right film in the first place.
I will go ahead and buy a few boxes of the Adox film from Fotoimpex once the DHL shipping costs drop to something a little more reasonable. Unless something unexpected pops up I will continue using Jason's dry plates since I also have several plate holders for this camera.

 

[Nodda Duma]

That’s what I did to get sheets of the CHS 100. It is good stuff. Once you get it in, I think you’ll like the results.

 

[Ian Grant]

Thanks. I have a box of your dry plates that fits perfectly and I will be ordering more shortly.

This is an old Zeiss Ikon folding camera and 3.25x4.25 just falls out of the holders. It has to the real European 6.5x9cm.

I did find some Adox CHS 100 in true 6.5x9 for sale at Fotoimpex. I may just order 25 sheets of that though I have never had the privilege of using that particular film stock yet.

I will check Freestyle.

Thanks

Dan your post is rather confusing. You say 3.25 x 4.25 falls out of the holders, that's quarter plate, the nearest metric equivalent is 9x12cmm which is slightly larger,

If uou meant 2.25x 3.25 (a size I've never heard of) I assume that's probably just 6.5x9 sheet film labled for the US market, it will fall out of 6.5x9 plate holders as all sheet film sizes are nominal and slightly smaller than the glass plate sizes. This is becasue plate holders need(ed) metal sheaths to hold film so the film is smaller to allow for the thickness of the folded sides of the film sheaths.

Ian

 

[Pioneer]

Ian, you are right. Thank you for the correction. It is 2.25x3.25. I guess I've been looking at so many ads for sheet film that my easily confused brain is getting overloaded.

Ok, maybe I can clear this up a bit. This is a nice old Zeiss Ikon Icarette that I enjoy working with from time to time. It was built back in the 1920s and still works wonderfully. Partly to exercise the shutter regularly, and partly because I enjoy experiencing the practice of photography as it was done when these cameras were sold, I like to take this camera out a few times a year. This camera came to me with the ability to handle film three different ways.

• It can use 120 roll film. This is normally how I have worked with it in the past. When used this way it is like working with most folding cameras of the time period. Unfortunately in this configuration I experience random light leaks that I am pretty sure come from the roll film back which fits a bit loosely after all these years. If I tape it up around the edges like a Holga this doesn't happen. I don't mind doing this to my Holga but I don't like to do this to this wonderful old, leather covered, camera. It just feels wrong somehow. I am trying to see if there is a way to apply some felt around the inside edges but until I get the light leaks sorted out I am using the camera with sheet film and plates.
  
• It can also use 6.5x9 cm sheet film and has the film back holders for these. Since the camera is so old, 2.25 x 3.25 film, which is the sizing normally sold in the United States, falls right out of the sleeves that go into the film back holders. When set up like this it handles like a compact view camera and comes with a nice ground glass back for this purpose. It is a great day pack camera.
  
• Finally, it can use glass plates and has the correct holders for these plates. The plates from Jason fit like a glove in these holders.

I also have another camera (a Graflex believe it or not) that uses this size of film and, like this one, the 2.25x3.25 film just falls out of the film holder unless I tape it in place.

Like I mentioned, once shipping prices get a little more normal I will buy some of the Adox film from Fotoimpex. A box of 25 sheets would easily last a couple of years in this camera and in the Graflex.

But, I can also cut some film down. This is probably what I will do in the interim since I have quite a bit of 4x5 sheet film.

 

[Willyekerslike]

Hi,
2.25 x 3.25 inch and 6.5 x 9 mm are two different sizes. I use both in Mamiya type A and type J sheet film backs. The two sizes are availabe from Ilford in the UK.

 

[Nokton48]

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[Pioneer]

Hi,
2.25 x 3.25 inch and 6.5 x 9 mm are two different sizes. I use both in Mamiya type A and type J sheet film backs. The two sizes are availabe from Ilford in the UK.

Thanks. You are so right.
I have the one and could use the other.

 

[nosmok]

Freestyle frequently will have one 6.5 x 9 cm sheet film on the site, but it may not always be in stock.

 

[abruzzi]

I haven't ordered any yet, but supposedly you can cut a sheet of 5x7 in half on both axis' and get 4 sheets of 2.5x3.5 (which is the size of 6.5x9.) Right now I'm just cutting down 4x5 which still requires 2 cuts but only gives me 2 sheets out of those 2 cuts.

 

[Ian Grant]

Hi,
2.25 x 3.25 inch and 6.5 x 9 mm are two different sizes. I use both in Mamiya type A and type J sheet film backs. The two sizes are availabe from Ilford in the UK.

We live and learn, when we stop learning we should give up I have a Busch Pressman that must be 3¼ x 2¼ but I've never wanted to use cut film with it, It was converted to take roll film backs decades ago, nothing special just a different spring mechanism, I use a Graflex RH10 (6x7) back. I'd never considered taht the US had yet anothera non stardard format

Ian