Do Kodak still prints exposure settings inside the 35mm film boxes?

Chan Tran · Apr 24, 2020

Haven't bought film for quite sometimes. I can't remember if Kodak still prints the suggested exposure settings (sunny 16 etc..) inside the film boxes?

Donald Qualls · Apr 24, 2020

They did last time I opened one, but that's been more than ten years.

runswithsizzers · Apr 24, 2020

Nope. At least it's not on any of the recent retail boxes I've purchased in the USA. If anyone has an old box with the inside printing, I'd like to see a scan/photo of the information.

Paul Howell · Apr 24, 2020

If you look up Sunny 16 you will find the same information. Sometimes on Ebay the old Kodak film data guide show up the exposure wheel.

Chan Tran · Apr 24, 2020

Paul Howell said:
If you look up Sunny 16 you will find the same information. Sometimes on Ebay the old Kodak film data guide show up the exposure wheel.

Not that I need the information because I remember them by heart. Just curious if they still provide those information.

abruzzi · Apr 24, 2020

I recently shot an old expired roll of 120 Verichrome Pan, and discovered that all that exposure info was printed on the paper leader. Of course modern films don't do that any more, but I suspect it was to support all those old Kodak meterless box cameras.

I've seen a few new 35mm boxes that have that info, but non are Kodak.

Paul Howell · Apr 24, 2020

Just to add and add to my library I found and bought a Kodak Master Guide from Thrift Books.

Huss · Apr 24, 2020

Just opened a Tri-X 36exp and nope.
Maybe in their colour film? But I don't have any, preferring Fuji for that.

Ces1um · Apr 24, 2020

nope. They don't.

Bud Hamblen · Apr 24, 2020

Chan Tran said:
Haven't bought film for quite sometimes. I can't remember if Kodak still prints the suggested exposure settings (sunny 16 etc..) inside the film boxes?

Not anymore.

Vaughn · Apr 24, 2020

My camera had it all on its back...

PS -- must not have been much 400 ASA film back in the early 50s...

BrianShaw · Apr 24, 2020

Perhaps back in the 50’s they assumed that people know how to multiply.

Vaughn · Apr 25, 2020

Even easier! On that chart one just has to add! In the forest or in your local train station (middle of the day, no clouds) at ASA 100 it is 11...ASA200 it will be 12, and 400 it will be 13. I'd use it if I could not find my meter ...close enough for me at the time (late 70s).

Chan Tran · Apr 25, 2020

BrianShaw said:
Perhaps back in the 50’s they assumed that people know how to multiply.

If you look again. The chart on the back of his camera only require addition and substraction.

Do Kodak still prints exposure settings inside the 35mm film boxes?

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