[Darkroom] PET base film nightmares
Jasmine Strong
jasmine at electronpusher.org
Wed Nov 24 03:41:52 UTC 2010
It's thin and too flexible, so it tends to pop out of the spiral as you're loading it.
-J.
On 23 Nov 2010, at 19:06, Kelly wrote:
> Those are great shots. I'm surprised you had so much breakage.
> Supposedly PET is very strong? (i.e.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_base#Polyester)
>
> Is it inflexible?
>
> -Kelly
>
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 21:21, Jasmine Strong
> <jasmine at electronpusher.org> wrote:
>>
>> In the unlikely case that anyone is interested, here are scans. Not all of these shots came out the way I wanted. Plus I lost half a film to the spooly-gremlins. :-(
>>
>> http://picasaweb.google.com/closeenoughforjas/Cn200Digibase?pli=1&gsessionid=F4ewu_KgNQmPwD5655k5aA#
>>
>> The results are pretty remarkable for a C41 film.
>>
>> -J.
>>
>> On 13 Nov 2010, at 15:14, Jasmine Strong wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I shot a roll of Agfa/Rollei/Maco Digibase CN200 today. It's a PET base film, rather than the usual acetate base, and I had a heck of a time getting it onto my processing spiral (the standard plastic one you get with the Patterson tanks).
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any tips? I ruined half a film this way, and that makes me sad.
>>>
>>> -J.
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