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

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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?
 
They did last time I opened one, but that's been more than ten years.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Just to add and add to my library I found and bought a Kodak Master Guide from Thrift Books.
 
Just opened a Tri-X 36exp and nope.
Maybe in their colour film? But I don't have any, preferring Fuji for that.
 
My camera had it all on its back...

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

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