Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:28 AM 2/23/01 -0500, Austin Franklin wrote: > > >> The real test of film loading ability is loading 2 rolls back to >> back on the >> same reel.... > >Do you mean adjacent, as in side by side, like touching? Why would you want >to do that? No, sorry, that's a song... Back-to-back is just that! Back-to-back. The base of one film against the bast of the other. Plastic against plastic. Simple... You get double the numbers of rolls per run. This is a method used in nearly every (all that I knew) serious (commercial) darkroom since the beginning of tanks and reels. I used it frequently back when I used D-76/HC-110/Clayton P60/etc... years ago and I was shooting tons of B&W commercial work. I used it equally successfully with Ektachrome back in the 60's when I had a big big job for a huge slide presentation. While at Brooks, with limited personal resources, I had a single 500ml Nikor tank, two 35mm reels and one 120 reel. Running film back-to-back was routine for me and most of my colleagues. Either that or spend an inordinate amount of time processing film. And 120 works back-to-back. Tricky to load with thin B&W films (Pan-X, KB-14, Isopan IFF, etc...,) but works just fine. The thick stuff (Royal-X Pan) was easier. Jim NO UV