Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>There's a place online (www.filmemporium.com) that sells Kodak 5222 >Cine (Super XX) short ends for $.10/ft. That's about a quarter of the >going rate for Tri-X (though slower, of course) 100ft' rolls, if I can >figure out how to get it into 35mm cassettes. >But I'm wondering about the process for getting it into a bulk loader. >Are the reels for cinema film the same as those for bulk still film or >is there some kind of special procedure I would need to go through? >Thanks, >Matt Powell Matt I have done that several times with Ilford Pan-F cinema 300ft rolls. Works well. The inner reel is the same. I had to wind the 300ft on three 100ft rolls in a darkroom of a filmlab in the neighbourhood (where I used to work 18 years ago). If you have 100ft rolls, the better. Just put it in your bulk device and go on. Didier