72 Exposure Film?

[newspaperguy]

Not quite OT, but I can recall loading a 36 exposure roll into a Pen F (1/2 frame) and it took forever to finish that mistake.

 

[amateriat]

12-exposure rolls of Kodak Gold are still available here and there in these parts. Only had a brief fascination with them.

As for Ilford's 72-exposure HP5, I had a brief and traumatic experience with it, via my old Canon F-1 and Motor Drive MF, which, let's just say, was a real MF to use with such a thin-base film such as that. Never liked the prints made from it, either.


- Barrett

 

[btgc]

Not quite OT, but I can recall loading a 36 exposure roll into a Pen F (1/2 frame) and it took forever to finish that mistake.

I had idea about 36exp roll in HF camera when read topic. I mostly use this combo as visual diary - lasts about a month; or take many similar people shots and then roll lasts one to several days. I like 36exp rolls and avoid 24 and especially 12. This could change if I start bulk loading.

 

[Joao]

12 exposure rolls

12 exposure rolls

The German Schlecker chain-store still has their Fujicolor (house brand) in 12, 24 and 36 exposures. It is the less expensive film round here. As said in other posts, these 12 exp rolls are very practical to test cameras.
Joao

 

[Al Kaplan]

Kodak used to supply a 27.5 foot "bulk" roll that had leaders, and tongues on the other end of each 5.5 foot length. It was easy to just tear the lengths apart in the dark. The tonguse fit into spools designed for them, such as in Leica cassettes.

 

[Tom A]

Now where did I put that step ladder?🙄

My old darkroom was 20x24 ft and I used to string the film up across it. Of course, you then forgot about it and walked in and got entangled in multiple feet of wet film! (I never have a lightswitch at the entrance of a darkroom - you have to cross it to turn on white light - gives you a chance to remember if you closed the paperbox or that 100ft can of film!).

 

[Al Kaplan]

I constructed my darkroom in 1968 and used a double switch plate just inside the door. The one nearest the door is white light, the other controls the safelights. Eight years ago I rewired and replumbed the place but by mistake rerversed the positions of the light switches. You'd think by now I'd know which was where, or changed them back to where they belong. I'm too damned lazy but I still flip the wrong switch half the time.

One of the first things I put in the darkroom was a film dryer that dries the film ON the reels. The dryer doesn't care how long the film is as long as the reel fits inside the tube.

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[Gumby]

The Ilford 72 exposure roll was a great idea but a really dreadful product. I, too, have a leftover roll and it doesn't bother me one bit to continue to store it, for the 23rd consecutive year, in a hot and unventilated garage.