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Subject: [Leica] O.T. Need some info on old roll film adapters
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:27:45 +1030
References: <640584.65416.qm@web26705.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <01297E28-B1F9-4921-8560-59E003436D54@mac.com>

Neither Freestyle nor Fotoimpex carry many historical formats.  You
want to try these guys: http://www.filmforclassics.com/

I suspect the camera that you describe takes 116 or 616 film.

Marty

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Tarek Charara <tcharara at mac.com> wrote:
> You may want to check Fotoimpex <http://www.fotoimpex.de/Home/home.html>
> or Freestyle Photo <http://www.freestylephoto.biz/index.php>
>
> Good luck!
>
> All the best from the south of France!
>
> Tarek
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> Tarek Charara
> <http://www.pix-that-stimulate.com>
>
> NO ARCHIVE
>
>
>
> Le 28 janv. 10 ? 01:08, Peter Cheyne a ?crit :
>
>> My friend's great uncle died recently. ?He had all sorts of photographic
>> treasure in his old house. ?Amidst glass plate negatives, and dusty view
>> cameras, my friend gave me an APEM folding camera that takes, according to
>> the inscription inside the camera, 2 1/2" x 4 1/4" photos. ?Now 2 1/2" is
>> about 1/4" taller than the only roll film size freely available today.
>>
>> I know this is a Leica group, but I am not one to join lots of internet
>> groups, I'm only in two, so I hope someone here might be able to help. ?A
>> couple of hours trawling Google didn't help me. ?Has anyone come across a
>> store that sells re-spooled roll film in the older sizes? ?Or, better yet,
>> does anyone know of anywhere that sells an adapter to make 120 film that 
>> bit
>> longer so that it can fit into a ?slightly longer spooled camera? ?The 
>> film
>> this one was made to take is APEM Roll Film No. 241, or Rajar Roll Film 
>> No.
>> 41. ?My friend just said, show me a photo taken with my Uncle Ray's old
>> camera and you can keep it.
>>
>> Peter Cheyne
>>
>>
>>
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