Fr. Mark
2-Oct-2015, 21:44
I've cut a number of 8x10 sheets of Ektascan to 5x7. Easy with a guillotine cutter and safelights on.
First cut gives a film strip that's a little over an inch wide about 10 inches long.
I'm starting to have a lot of these.
I can only use so many as fixer test strips.
This film can record incredible detail. In fact, at some peril to my beloved tiny format camera, an OM-1, I put a strip of the film in it and took some pictures---the image area on 35mm film is only 24mm tall by 36 mm wide and these strips are 25-26 maybe 27 mm tall by 254 mm or so long. . One of them easily enlarges to 5x7 and I think I could've gone bigger---it's not tech pan or panatomic X but it is nice stuff. I did use mirror lock up and self timer to eliminate vibrations.
I tried spooling it into reloadable film cassettes but it is really much too stiff and I'd rather not destroy my OM-1 or any other small camera.
I recently purchased a 4x5 enlarger so maybe a panoramic pinhole camera?? 1:5 is pretty panoramic. Maybe curve the film plane a little to compensate for light fall off?
Or maybe some sort of "modern art" LF thing where strips are taped together to make a "sheet" of film and the pictures are "randomly" printed from assemblages of strips?
You are a creative bunch. Maybe you have ideas? I hate waste and this is amazing film in dilute Rodinal or Pyrocat HD and probably other developers.
First cut gives a film strip that's a little over an inch wide about 10 inches long.
I'm starting to have a lot of these.
I can only use so many as fixer test strips.
This film can record incredible detail. In fact, at some peril to my beloved tiny format camera, an OM-1, I put a strip of the film in it and took some pictures---the image area on 35mm film is only 24mm tall by 36 mm wide and these strips are 25-26 maybe 27 mm tall by 254 mm or so long. . One of them easily enlarges to 5x7 and I think I could've gone bigger---it's not tech pan or panatomic X but it is nice stuff. I did use mirror lock up and self timer to eliminate vibrations.
I tried spooling it into reloadable film cassettes but it is really much too stiff and I'd rather not destroy my OM-1 or any other small camera.
I recently purchased a 4x5 enlarger so maybe a panoramic pinhole camera?? 1:5 is pretty panoramic. Maybe curve the film plane a little to compensate for light fall off?
Or maybe some sort of "modern art" LF thing where strips are taped together to make a "sheet" of film and the pictures are "randomly" printed from assemblages of strips?
You are a creative bunch. Maybe you have ideas? I hate waste and this is amazing film in dilute Rodinal or Pyrocat HD and probably other developers.