For Sale [Closed] - 70mm x 100' Rolls C-41 ($44.99 Kodak Portra 400BW)

[LInuxHack3r]

I have simplified everything and am simply posting links to the ads on Ebay. The ads show realtime stock, so this is the rest of it guys.

Kodak Professional Portra 400BW Film 70mm x 100’ Process C-41 Expired

Price dropped to $44.99 via Ebay. International Shipping via Ebay's International Shipping Program, which I've had very good success with.

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[Meyer Trioplan]

PM sent!

 

[LInuxHack3r]

Color film added.

 

[LInuxHack3r]

Bump. Quite a few rolls sold. Hopefully some feedback within a few weeks regarding development.

 

[LInuxHack3r]

Bump with ~2 film types added. Prices adjusted. For anyone that wants six rolls, feel free to negotiate. Six rolls is the perfect amount for a USPS Flat Rate Medium Shipping Box.

 

[LInuxHack3r]

AFGA sold out, so removed from listing.

 

[John Shriver]

Any Tri-X, Plus-X, or Panatomic-X?

 

[LInuxHack3r]

Any Tri-X, Plus-X, or Panatomic-X?

No. I finished last night listing all that I have. Sorry!

 

[Nokton48]

This film ^^^ can be loaded into a Graflex RH50 70mm film holder. See the soft rubber rollers? They will pull unperforated film through the back. The backs fit any camera that will take a graphmatic back. That includes most 4x5 cameras................. You can get up to 50 6x7cm exposures with this film back. You can shoot any length of film you want in these Kodak 70mm cartridges. This back could save a color large format shooter a lot of money with this bargain film. You can also shoot just part of a full roll and then open the back and cut it.

DSC05911 by Nokton48, on Flickr

I bought this particular back for $30 which included two 70mm Kodak cassettes. The back appears to me to have never been used.

 

[Nokton48]

This is a Beatty Coleman Transet Film Back which also has rubber rollers, and will shoot this unperfed 70mm film. This back does not use Kodak cartridges, so the film must be loaded in the darkroom. But I have successfully done it. The image size with the back is approx. 6x8cm. Shown here with an attached Plaubel Makiflex adapter.

001 by Nokton48, on Flickr

 

[LInuxHack3r]

Sounds like you know exactly what you are talking about! Thanks for the input, perhaps that will inspire a few more buyers.

Buy some yourself!

 

[John Shriver]

Also great for reloading 116 and 616 roll film. But getting 70mm C-41 film processed isn't easy. My local dip and dunk lab did, but they had to cut the roll in the 7th exposure, so I really could only make 6 exposure rolls. But I can sure process the 616 rolls I make with my spool of Tri-X.

 

[Nokton48]

Sounds like you know exactly what you are talking about! Thanks for the input, perhaps that will inspire a few more buyers.
Buy some yourself!

I'm really not a color shooter. But I do like 70mm B&W perfed film! I have an ongoing 70mm thread at the RFF forum here: https://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161383&page=15&highlight=70mm+fun

I would suggest you join and introduce yourself on my thread. It has been getting a lot of interest and it's a different crowd than here. Just a suggestion. You could even place an ad in the RFF classifieds for a modest fee. Just saying.

 

[LInuxHack3r]

I'm really not a color shooter. But I do like 70mm B&W perfed film! I have an ongoing 70mm thread at the RFF forum here: https://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=161383&page=15&highlight=70mm+fun

I would suggest you join and introduce yourself on my thread. It has been getting a lot of interest and it's a different crowd than here. Just a suggestion. You could even place an ad in the RFF classifieds for a modest fee. Just saying.

Thanks. I may take the time this weekend or even tonight to do that. Do you foresee there being much interest?

 

[wjlapier]

I'm interested in buying some of the film but I'm need more info. I see Nokton48 shared the backs and what kind of cameras the backs go on so that's a start. I develop my own film so I'd need to know more about how to go about doing that. Then scannng. How to get the film from the large roll to a canister is another.

 

[LInuxHack3r]

I'm interested in buying some of the film but I'm need more info. I see Nokton48 shared the backs and what kind of cameras the backs go on so that's a start. I develop my own film so I'd need to know more about how to go about doing that. Then scannng. How to get the film from the large roll to a canister is another.

I don’t know the answers to these, but I’d be very surprised if other people here didn’t.

 

[mjork]

For developing 70mm film, you can use a tank with 116/616 film reels. For example a "FR Special" with adjustable reels can easily be found for cheap on eBay. And with some luck you can also find a 116 size metal reel that will fit into a standard stainless steel tank. These seem kind of rare, though.

 

[LInuxHack3r]

Adjusted price structure for Kodak film to better encourage bulk purchases. Lowered to $65 per roll but you cover PayPal + Shipping. I think that's better than $75 per. For what it's worth, I can fit at least 6 rolls in a single Medium Flat Rate Box.

 

[Mr Bill]

I'm interested in buying some of the film but I'm need more info. I see Nokton48 shared the backs and what kind of cameras the backs go on so that's a start. I develop my own film so I'd need to know more about how to go about doing that. Then scannng. How to get the film from the large roll to a canister is another.

I imagine you would just manually load the canisters in a darkroom; the canisters most likely have their own spools which you would have to wind the film onto.

I don't know your purpose in trying to use this film, but if it's just for the fun of shooting on it, the OP seems to have a number of the original cameras that this film was intended to be used in. At the prices the OP was considering, it might be worthwhile to just buy one of the original Camerz portrait cameras (with film magazine).

Back when I was a punk kid I spent a few years pushing an earlier version of those cameras around, shooting comfortably more film than all the OP has for sale. If you're shooting high volume portrait work, nothing else compares. You load a 100 ft roll of film into the magazine in the dark (we used changing bags), then the loaded magazines can be handled in the light (they have a dark slide). When you're ready to shoot, attach the film magazine to the back of the camera, plug the cable into the camera, remove the dark slide, and push the film-advance button a couple of times. Then start shooting. Every time you shoot (via an electrical release cable plugged into the camera) the shutter fires, the built-in numbering device illuminates momentarily (if you have a prenumbered sitting card inserted, the camera exposes this number between frames), then the film automatically advances. If you want to "cut film" before the entire roll is shot, insert the dark slideNote that the shutters are typically slow speed, suitable mainly for indoor portrait work with studio flash.

You're on your own getting the film processed. At the outfit where I worked we used cine processors configured for 70mm film; the ~150 rolls of film would have been a day or two worth of lab production. But this was special purpose equipment, and it mostly went away when digital went mainstream. Today you'd want to look for a lab with a "Dip and dunk" machine; they'll have to cut it into strips, similar to conventional rolls of film. Or do it yourself with gear as per mjork.

 

[Nokton48]

I'm interested in buying some of the film but I'm need more info. I see Nokton48 shared the backs and what kind of cameras the backs go on so that's a start. I develop my own film so I'd need to know more about how to go about doing that. Then scannng. How to get the film from the large roll to a canister is another.

I suggest you read my ongoing thread on RFF. See above for the link ^^^ Answers to your questions are there. Short lengths of 70mm C41 could be run through a one-hour I would imagine.

 

[wjlapier]

I suggest you read my ongoing thread on RFF. See above for the link ^^^ Answers to your questions are there. Short lengths of 70mm C41 could be run through a one-hour I would imagine.

I went back and read it today. Found a bunch more info that will be helpful.

 

[LInuxHack3r]

Reduced price to $60 each for the Kodak rolls + shipping.

 

[Meyer Trioplan]

For anyone considering this, I personally was quite pleased at both the prompt shipping speed and results from the film, purchasing 2 rolls of Portra 160NC and one of the Konica 160 for respooling on 616 backing.

I developed my first "test" rolls in a rather stretched soup of a Unicolor kit that I mixed last week. The Kodak film was shot in a reliable Ansco Clipper Special "half frame" 616 camera with an f/6.3 triplet while the Konica film was tested in an unproven Kodak Six-16 "Improved" full frame 616 folding camera with a 124mm Kodak Anastigmat of Tessar type.

I tended to overexpose the Portra by 2 stops, simply because it's a preference of mine, and is what I do even for fresh Portra. Still, I did a few shots using exposure settings for ISO 160 as well. The entire roll came out wonderfully, sharply defined with wonderful contrast, and little to nothing that I could detect in so far as base fog. I did a couple of hasty scans to share (pardon my scanner quality) below.

I only had vestiges of late afternoon light in a dreary winter landscape with which to shoot the Konica color film, and tried to overexpose that as well. Expired ca. 2002, the film displayed appreciably greater base fog than the Kodak upon developing, but the scans were salvageable. As mentioned above the camera is unproven, and shows signs of a light leak and some need for better focus collimation (or better focus estimation on my part) before being used again. Despite the vast technical flaws of my shots, I was able to get a decent idea of the color rendition of the film, which despite the age and fog, is still easily scanned, and while on the cool side to some degree, doesn't seem to suffer from an excessive shift of the color palette as I've tended to get with other Konica films of similar vintage.

Cell phone pic of the negatives - Konica on the left and Kodak Portra on the right...

Storefront window via Portra 160NC: Only slight tweaking of contrast to a jpg scan.

 

[LInuxHack3r]

Final stock uploaded to Ebay with real-time quantity. As such, I will no longer be selling "via the forum" here although I have much enjoyed unloading this film here!

Get it while you can, as this is the absolute last that I have and will likely not ever get anymore.

 

[stawastawa]

Nice! I would but I am up to my chin in duplicating film. works well to (for scans) but a bit more varied in color rendition.