Quote Originally Posted by Hugo Zhang View Post
Jay,

Do you have issues with dusts on the negatives with bag bellows? I have a few bag bellows with my Super D and no matter how carefully, air blow each septum before loading the film and air blow inside the box, I try to load and unload the films, I seem to get tiny dusts on at least 3-4 negatives from each bag. I talked to Kim Weston the other day and he had the same problem and said they came from the inside of the leather bag and the only solution was to change the leather pouch into something that does not have small particles falling off.

I love those bag bellows though.

Hugo
Hugo, it's hard for me to say where dust comes from, but it always seems to come from somewhere, whether I'm using a bag mag, a double sided holder, or a roll film holder. I haven't noticed an increase in dust with my bag mags, compared to other film holders, but I haven't made any formal evaluations, either.

To be honest, I don't shoot my Graflex much. When I first bought it, I bought 10 (I think) 25 sheet boxes each of Forte 200 and 400 from J&C, and another 100 sheet box marked "Pan Portrait 125", from an ebay seller, and I still have most of it in my freezer. I recently picked up a 6x9 roll holder for it, and I've put one roll through that, so I'm not really very experienced with any of this stuff. I should probably seel my outfit, but I have all this film, and this morning I read an article about using a film pack adapter (which I also have) as a wet plate holder, so maybe I'll give that a try.