Which 120 films dry flattest?

thinkbrown · Jun 7, 2025

Okay, I tried hanging foma in the bathroom, fan off, overnight, with extra weight on the bottom and.....

Same results. Absolutely maddening curl.

abruzzi · Jun 7, 2025

thinkbrown said:
Okay, I tried hanging foma in the bathroom, fan off, overnight, with extra weight on the bottom and.....

Same results. Absolutely maddening curl.

yup. Though @Rick A posted a photo that shows it doesn't always happen. To my mind either the environment (temp, humidity, etc.) is different, or all my rolls came from the lat few feet of the master roll and his came for the first few feet of a new master roll. I guess it could also be chemicals in the dev/stop/fix that have some impact on curl?

DREW WILEY · Jun 7, 2025

Age and "cure" of the emulsion, ambient humidity during storage and even in-camera, whether or not someone has a voodoo doll of you and sticks pins into it. I wouldn't necessarily blame any one film type. Curling of roll film is more an issue for me when spooling them onto the developing reel; and that's when I might notice a difference between a long desert trip or here on the foggy coast (I'm wearing a coat today, on a June afternoon). Very low humidity tends to stiffen the film and cause more curl.

Sirius Glass · Jun 7, 2025

DREW WILEY said:
Age and "cure" of the emulsion, ambient humidity during storage and even in-camera, whether or not someone has a voodoo doll of you and sticks pins into it. I wouldn't necessarily blame any one film type. Curling of roll film is more an issue for me when spooling them onto the developing reel; and that's when I might notice a difference between a long desert trip or here on the foggy coast (I'm wearing a coat today, on a June afternoon). Very low humidity tends to stiffen the film and cause more curl.

Agreeing with my statements about having the film hang is a shower stall that has recently had the shower run.

thinkbrown · Jun 7, 2025

DREW WILEY said:
Age and "cure" of the emulsion, ambient humidity during storage and even in-camera, whether or not someone has a voodoo doll of you and sticks pins into it. I wouldn't necessarily blame any one film type. Curling of roll film is more an issue for me when spooling them onto the developing reel; and that's when I might notice a difference between a long desert trip or here on the foggy coast (I'm wearing a coat today, on a June afternoon). Very low humidity tends to stiffen the film and cause more curl.

I'd make a voodoo doll of myself and stick needles in it if I thought it'd make my foma dry flat hahaha

Which 120 films dry flattest?

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