Joakim Målare
Established
Hey folks,
Winter isn't that much fun photography-wise up here in Sweden, and the lack of sunlight affects your body as well. Vitamin D is produced inside you when you're exposed to sun/light. You might need an artificial boost of those during this time of year.
For those of you with 24/7 daylight (!?
), how about experimenting a little with Vitamin C developers? There are recipes to try out, just for fun if nothing else.
To get to the point - buy a tube of vitamins. They're very useful even when you stuffed yourself full of the contents - as film containers! Two rolls of 120 fit perfectly in the size I buy (they're mostly all the same size, here at least) if you trim away the inside part of the lid. Take care though, the lid is filled with silica and you don't want that all over the floor.
As a bonus, I made a cover for the tube that you can print out, cut to size and tape on. It's long enough to hide the first piece of tape that you use to fix it to the tube. Then you wrap it with some more tape, all around.
Like this:
Here's the file (no idea why it's so large, about 1,5 MB)
http://nioform.se/tmp/IlfordVitaminCovers.pdf
It's A4 size but should print appropriately on most papers if you deactivate downscaling in the printing dialog.
Also, I followed Tom A's idea about taping two 135-cans together, bottom to bottom. It's nice when things are a little organized, methinks.
Have a nice day/night!
Winter isn't that much fun photography-wise up here in Sweden, and the lack of sunlight affects your body as well. Vitamin D is produced inside you when you're exposed to sun/light. You might need an artificial boost of those during this time of year.
For those of you with 24/7 daylight (!?
), how about experimenting a little with Vitamin C developers? There are recipes to try out, just for fun if nothing else.To get to the point - buy a tube of vitamins. They're very useful even when you stuffed yourself full of the contents - as film containers! Two rolls of 120 fit perfectly in the size I buy (they're mostly all the same size, here at least) if you trim away the inside part of the lid. Take care though, the lid is filled with silica and you don't want that all over the floor.
As a bonus, I made a cover for the tube that you can print out, cut to size and tape on. It's long enough to hide the first piece of tape that you use to fix it to the tube. Then you wrap it with some more tape, all around.
Like this:
Here's the file (no idea why it's so large, about 1,5 MB)
http://nioform.se/tmp/IlfordVitaminCovers.pdf
It's A4 size but should print appropriately on most papers if you deactivate downscaling in the printing dialog.
Also, I followed Tom A's idea about taping two 135-cans together, bottom to bottom. It's nice when things are a little organized, methinks.
Have a nice day/night!
Phothomas
Established
Good morning from Germany.
Great idea! I think I have such a tube somewhere. I´ll try it out soon. Thank you very much.
Thomas
Great idea! I think I have such a tube somewhere. I´ll try it out soon. Thank you very much.
Thomas
Film dino
David Chong
Thanks for this- very cool!
Landberg
Well-known
Swedish engineering! bra skit!
bra skit!
Ezzie
E. D. Russell Roberts
Good idea. Will look into doing someting like this.
thegman
Veteran
Nice find, might have to try this.
johannielscom
Snorting silver salts
Brilliant idea.
The kind of self-sufficiency that I like. No need to buy expensive Fuji or Japan Camera film containers through the internet, and this is much cooler too!
The kind of self-sufficiency that I like. No need to buy expensive Fuji or Japan Camera film containers through the internet, and this is much cooler too!
ruby.monkey
Veteran
Or you could buy Rollei 120 or 127 film, which comes in individual 120-sized plastic tubs - and these have hinged lids that can't be lost.
Joakim Målare
Established
Thanks guys, glad you liked it
I guess it would work to tape a few tubes together, if you'd like that. Preferably alternating ends - lid up, lid down - to keep the sides aligned. My bag is the smaller kind and I only need two tubes, so... Still better than separate rolls.
Oh, the numbers on the other side are for reciprocity failure compensation, but you probably figured that out already.
I guess it would work to tape a few tubes together, if you'd like that. Preferably alternating ends - lid up, lid down - to keep the sides aligned. My bag is the smaller kind and I only need two tubes, so... Still better than separate rolls.
Oh, the numbers on the other side are for reciprocity failure compensation, but you probably figured that out already.
branki
Established
Good idea!
bra jobbat joakim!
bra jobbat joakim!
