Kodak readyloads

JKADIS · Mar 19, 2009

A year ago, I was lucky to be able to travel (with my view camera) to Asia for a month. Readyloads made the trip much easier when dealing with the language barrier at airport security checkpopints. Being able to simply open a box of film made all the difference. Well, that option is gone now. TMax 100 is my sheet film of choice. I know that Fuji has a competitive system but does anyone have other suggestions?

JKADIS

L Gebhardt · Mar 19, 2009

Sadly, I have no other suggestions. But I will say Acros is a very nice film, and is what I would do. Just note the stupid hole Fuji insists on putting on their negative films. I had to draw a line down the side of my ground glass in order to remember it.

PHOTOTONE · Mar 19, 2009

Your other readily available choices for compact travel with 4x5 film, would be a few holders, or grafmatics (holds six sheets) and a changing bag. You can put exposed film back into factory film boxes for temporary storage. Grafmatic holders have been discontinued for years, but can be found fairly regularly on the used market.

More exotic and expensive and discontinued would be the Mido system, which consists of very thin (like readyload) reloadable film sheaths and one sheath adapter for your camera.

Keith Tapscott. · Mar 19, 2009

AFAIK, the Fuji Quickload films can be loaded in the Kodak Readyload holder without any problems, so if you don`t have any T-Max 100 left, then Fuji 100 Acros should be OK.

eclarke · Mar 19, 2009

Keith Tapscott. said:
AFAIK, the Fuji Quickload films can be loaded in the Kodak Readyload holder without any problems, so if you don`t have any T-Max 100 left, then Fuji 100 Acros should be OK.

I have both holders and far prefer the newest Kodak to the Fuji for Acros, it operates more smoothly...Evan Clarke

eclarke · Mar 19, 2009

L Gebhardt said:
Sadly, I have no other suggestions. But I will say Acros is a very nice film, and is what I would do. Just note the stupid hole Fuji insists on putting on their negative films. I had to draw a line down the side of my ground glass in order to remember it.

Yes, the damn hole!!!..Evan Clarke

BobNewYork · Mar 19, 2009

L Gebhardt said:
Sadly, I have no other suggestions. But I will say Acros is a very nice film, and is what I would do. Just note the stupid hole Fuji insists on putting on their negative films. I had to draw a line down the side of my ground glass in order to remember it.

Why do they do this? It's in the image area?

Bob H

JKADIS · Mar 19, 2009

Keith Tapscott. said:
AFAIK, the Fuji Quickload films can be loaded in the Kodak Readyload holder without any problems, so if you don`t have any T-Max 100 left, then Fuji 100 Acros should be OK.

Hi Keith,

Thanks for the info. I was under the impression that the Kodak and Fuji sytems were not compatible. If indeed they are compatible, then all that's required is to once again get used to a new film.

JKADIS

JKADIS · Mar 19, 2009

I've travelled internationally with holders and a changing bag many times. The big difference on this last trip was all the Asian languages where I am completely clueless. In Europe and South America, I could at least explain why they couldn't open the film boxes. In Asia, that was impossible for me.

trexx · Mar 19, 2009

Use an on line translator and print something like this

Chinese
胶卷，只开放在完全黑暗

Japanese
写真フィルムは、暗闇の中でのみオープン

domaz · Mar 20, 2009

That translation probably means
"boxy film please open do not"

dfoo · Mar 20, 2009

The chinese means unexposed film, only open in complete darkness.

Martin Aislabie · Mar 20, 2009

L Gebhardt said:
Just note the stupid hole Fuji insists on putting on their negative films. I had to draw a line down the side of my ground glass in order to remember it.

Guys, what hole ?

I have some Acros Readyloads to try and have not yet opened the packet

I just assumed there would be a line on the Readyload like on the Kodak to show the limit for the cover

What should I be looking out for?

Many thanks

Martin

PHOTOTONE · Mar 20, 2009

Martin Aislabie said:
Guys, what hole ?

What should I be looking out for?

Many thanks

Martin

If it is what I think it is, Fuji is probably punching a small round hole in one corner of the sheet film. Lots of manufacturers used to do this. You can then hang up your negatives to dry with a bent paper-clip.

It would be outside the area of negative normally visible in the negative holder of an enlarger. It is only of some concern and interest to those contact printers that like to show the very edges of the negative, including the rebate.

This will only be visible once you process the film, you can't notice anything on the outside of the packet.

L Gebhardt · Mar 23, 2009

PHOTOTONE said:
If it is what I think it is, Fuji is probably punching a small round hole in one corner of the sheet film. Lots of manufacturers used to do this. You can then hang up your negatives to dry with a bent paper-clip.

It would be outside the area of negative normally visible in the negative holder of an enlarger. It is only of some concern and interest to those contact printers that like to show the very edges of the negative, including the rebate.

This will only be visible once you process the film, you can't notice anything on the outside of the packet.

The hole could be used for hanging, but I don't do this.

It does show up in the image area for my camera and negative holders. As such I am required to crop off a bit of either the top or the side to get rid of it. So it's an issue for more than contact printers. It is also on Fuji's color negative film, but doesn't seem to be on any of the transparency films.

Martin Aislabie · Mar 23, 2009

OK

Thanks for the info guys

I will avoid cropping any photo too tightly

Martin

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