Kodak versus Fuji from Ken Rockwell

"Absurd lengths"?
Well another definition: Got this heads up this morning..
Fugi Provia 400x Returns... I love this film, but not willing to go to these Absurd lengths to shoot it again:
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Roger Cole said:

Folks - it was a joke, poking fun by exaggeration at the rather absurd lengths some people will go to trying to explain or strive for effects that, if they exist at all, are utterly and insignificantly minute.

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Thanks Roger. It is always sensible to find out which outgassing is genuine and which is the other kind. Both or neither may be destructive depending on the thread. Not always easy to differentiate which applies these days on APUG

pentaxuser

BrianShaw said:

"Absurd lengths"? Now you are the one exaggerating Mr Cole. They are merely ridiculous lengths... Which is slightly shorter than absurd and a lot shorter than ludicrous. 

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i can't decide whether apug is a theatre of the absurd or a ludic farce.

Roger Cole said:

Sock and a shoe and sock and a shoe or sock and a sock and a shoe and a shoe? Which is faster?

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Surely one's man-servant attends to these details?

peter k. said:

Yep.. but always wondered if rubber banding a roll of film one had to be careful not to have it to tight, as it might effect the emulsion ..

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Carry half a dozen small sticky labels on their backing paper.

Always write exposure and film details (Roll X, E.I. XX, Date XXX) on the label before taking the film out of the camera.

Remove the 'native' film closure tab and use the label.

How about masking tape. You caould also use a piece to stick on your camera marked with the type of film you're using.

Masking tape is much better than rubber banding 120 film. Rubber banding never did much for 135.

MartinP said:

Carry half a dozen small sticky labels on their backing paper.
Always write exposure and film details (Roll X, E.I. XX, Date XXX) on the label before taking the film out of the camera.
Remove the 'native' film closure tab and use the label.

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I've started doing this in recent years. It adds a little extra security to the roll, and usually more space to write details. I find it invaluable when travelling, or when shooting many rolls a day when it's easy to lose track of what I've been doing.

There is one other trick I use worth mentioning. I have a very small sheet of pre-cut squares of masking tape. Each time a new roll is loaded into the P67, a small square of tape is taken off, and details are written on it and attached to the back of the TTL prism. At the end of the roll, and irrespective of whether the roll is Fuji or Kodak, this small tape square is removed from the prism and attached to the end of the film roll. This assists me in keeping track of roll file numbers and when the film is back from the lab, it has that piece of tape on the sleeve that tells me immediately which roll it is. Unsurprisingly perhaps I have not had any rolls mixed up in numbering/filing using this method and fiddly TMax rolls are quickly tamed.

mailing stickers you got in the mail with your name n address on em. I hate to throw them out.

paul ron said:

mailing stickers you got in the mail with your name n address on em. I hate to throw them out.

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