Beseler Negaflat and Quickload Film

[Doug Dolde]

Has anyone used the Beseler Negaflat film holder with Fuji Quickload film? I know the QL film is a bit off the standard 4x5 sheet film size..smaller I think.

I am wondering if its size allows proper gripping and tensioning by the holder.

[Sal Santamaura]

I've not used a Negaflat with any film, but haven't noticed that Acros, whether Quickload or loose sheets, is other than standard '4x5' size. The only apparent difference is that small drying hook hole.

[Kirk Gittings]

I have not tried it I will this evening. I have both.

[Richard Schlesinger]

I have a negaflat - I don't use Quickloads, but . . .The negaflat has been giving me fits in thatI align my Beseler MCR 45 with a laser. With the negative stage aligned perfectly with either 35 or 2 1/4 carriers the negaflat is out of alignment. It, the negaflat, is not flat! So I have been fooling around shimming it (only very close) and thinking about taking it apart to try to flatten the sheet metal. Anybody have any further thoughts?

[Paul Butzi]

What makes you think that quickload film is a different size from normal 4x5 film?

The Fuji quickload film I've used (Neopan 100, and Acros 100, and a small amount of Astia and Provia) all seemed to be the same size as the Kodak sheet film (both regular and quickload).

I just measured a sheet of Acros 100 (from a quickload) and it's so close in length and width that I can't measure the difference relative to a sheet of TMX (both a sheet from a box, and a readyload sheet).

Are you talking about thickness? I would be surprised if Quickloads sheets were on a different base from the normal Fuji sheet films.

[Doug Dolde]

Maybe I have a bad Negaflat. It won't hold QL and that's all I have. (for a Leafscan 45)

[Brad Rippe]

Hi Doug,

I once used the negaflat and found it gouged my film, especially after repeated uses. I use a saunders glass negative carrier with no problems, and the film stays flat.
You might be using a more updated model of the negaflat, but be careful, and try glass!

-Brad

[Kirk Gittings]

"I once used the negaflat and found it gouged my film, especially after repeated uses."

It does, that is how it pulls the film flat. But it is at the extreme edges of the long side of the film. I have used one for 25 years and never lost any image area that I needed. Glass, at least in the SW, just adds two more levels of dust.

Some negaflats develope a bow to them which can be straightened out with some careful bending.