There needs to be two things to come back in a major way after seeing this post. 1. Flashback to Friday, when we post actual film pictures of the way it was when this whole traditional hot rod thing started. ( early 80's - early 2000's) 2. Tech Week.
“I stumbled upon a forgotten roll of Tri-X. A roll I hadn’t touched in years.” “Developing film again? Why the hell not. I dug out the old kit, set up the darkroom, and got to work. It felt like opening a time capsule, each frame a little ghost from the past, whispering tales that I’d half-forgotten. And I’ve gotta say, the results? Pure joy.” Hello, Wow! What a cool time for a memory. Our supply storage area was full of stainless steel air tight spun containers with removable lids and internal removable open metal reels inside. There were a variety of sizes to accommodate the developed film cannisters ready for home developing. Along with my large black air tight bag with arm holes and an opening for putting the film cannister and stainless container+ reel inside. The darkened inside was perfect for a place to break open the film cannister and begin to wrap the 35mm film around the stainless steel reels. Those are where the 35mm film was wound around in circles until the film was completely wrapped. Then the steel frame + wrapped film was placed inside of the stainless steel cans, and the lid form fitted on top. The removal of the small cap allowed the developing mixture to be poured inside of the can. Then a swirling motion and soon the film is developed. Stainless Steel 35 mm developing cans with open reels inside. There was also a double reel developing can when more than one roll was ready for developing. 2.25 x 2.25 film reels + tank was used for the larger format film… The same process, but, with more care, since the film sheet roll is larger and prone to crinkling the large format film as one winds it around the empty reel. Or, two smaller 35mm reels inside of the larger can. Jnaki The large air tight black bag allows anyone to change out the film cannister from any 35mm film camera in daylight and odd weather conditions. Once taken out, then a new cannister can be loaded in place. Yes, one can do the film cannister exchange outside of the camera in broad daylight, but inside, there is no swirling winds with floating air motes that could get inside of the open back 35mm camera. The bag allows one to change all sorts of things. Such as winding around the 35mm film on the reels. For every photo shoot, a new roll of B/W film was in one 35mm camera 36 shot roll. The other one had color slide film new 24 shot roll. If I could not get a good shot of the specific angles in 24 shots, then I needed help. But, just in case, the 36 shot B/W film was ready and able. Now, if the film taken was used up, I got in the back of the 40 Ford Sedan Delivery and closed the rear door. Inside I put the 35mm camera inside of the black bag for opening the back and taking out the rewound film cannister and while it was open, I could easily put in a new roll of film. No, I could not do this the first time around, but sitting around in our tiny apartment allowed me to practice with the camera and used film 36 shots long. It was all feel and knowing where the teeth were to start the crank handle. The black, light tight bag was very handy for long shoots or multiple day shoots on location. But, so was the rear cave of the 327 powered sedan delivery. Yes, I could have opened the 35mm camera anywhere I was shooting and replaced the rewound cannister with a new one, but if I took care of the initial install of the clean filmstrip, then I did not have to worry about clearing the spots on the negative later. A clean install always has/had good results and it took little time in the shade of the sedan delivery cave to reload the 35mm film camera. Note: Doing the home developing versus the photo store doing the developing saved a ton of money and that was good. Plus, you had the valuable films right after the film dried to begin creating some photos, color and b/w. Sometimes, the color slides were sent out to the Kodak developing place, as they were good and used the Ektachrome process for the film style. YRMV
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