James Nachtwey's film boxes

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I have seen the film War Photograper and the amazing work of James Nachtwey.

It was interesting also, from my someway equipment oriented hobby view, to see his logistics with the film rolls.

My question to the forum is therefore if you know what kind of boxes he used to store his exposed and unexposed film rolls? They looked more like bullet magazines and was carried in the small waist bag from Newswear.
 
You talking about these?

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http://www.japanexposures.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=202

or

http://www.yodobashi.com/ec/product/100000001000102792/index.html
 
Thank you Luna. An interesting option that looks very tempting. Seems like a good way of keeping a lot of film rolls in order.

Nachtwey had a grey cartridge holder kind of box that was holding the film rolls in a single line.
 
Instantclassic said:
Thank you Luna. An interesting option that looks very tempting. Seems like a good way of keeping a lot of film rolls in order.

Nachtwey had a grey cartridge holder kind of box that was holding the film rolls in a single line.
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I see what you are talking about now. Those hold less but yea, single roll. Funny, I can't find those anymore. No idea what happened to them.

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Think they are grey slide boxes - you can get six 35 mm films in one Fuji green slide box and it works very well.

Regards
Harry
 
Back when film was king, you could find these everywhere, but I've been unable to source them in the U.S. since the late 1990's, early 2000's. Would like to find some of them.
 
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I couldn't find any kind of compact film holder, so I made one by taping together three plastic film containers (fuji worked the best for me). I hardly ever shoot more than 4 rolls in a day, so this works for me.

I really wish I had something a bit more sturdy though.
 
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I couldn't find any kind of compact film holder, so I made one by taping together three plastic film containers (fuji worked the best for me). I hardly ever shoot more than 4 rolls in a day, so this works for me.

I really wish I had something a bit more sturdy though.
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:) Brilliant, I shall dig out my tape :)
 
When taping together 3 film cans, the middle one could face the other way and be slightly lower so that the tops don't interfere with each other. No need for popsicle sticks IMO.
 
Macodirect delivers some Rollei films in handy two film containers. They also sell single plastic film containers for 120 film. For travel and general storage I use their rugged Rollei 20 film delivery box.
 
I'll grab myself a hot glue gun on the way home and make up some of these. White cans for new film, black for spent. 6 cans together should get me through a day. :)
 
Lowepro makes a very nice film carrying pouch. Very spacious. I got mine for less than 30 USD. It has a belt loop, but also sits inside the billingham junior. oh! and it also has space for a small lens UC Hex 35/2 or a collapsed Summitar. Additionally carries 10~12 rolls of film.
 
Rubbermaid makes a sandwich size container that will hold 15 naked rolls and holds up well. 20 years ago I did a European job and took 150 rolls, we are still using the containers for food and film. 15 rolls is plenty for my everyday pack.
 
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Lowepro makes a very nice film carrying pouch. Very spacious. I got mine for less than 30 USD. It has a belt loop, but also sits inside the billingham junior. oh! and it also has space for a small lens UC Hex 35/2 or a collapsed Summitar. Additionally carries 10~12 rolls of film.
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What's it called?
 
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HAMA film box for 4 x 135 or 2 x 120. X-ray safe.

I got five of these, there's one in each bag and two in the fridge, ready to go.

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Macodirect.de film container for two RolleiRetro100 films.

I cross out the label for containers that have re-used film cassettes.
 

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