Rolleicord with 35mm film

[ClaremontPhoto]

I don't want the 35 kit they used to sell. I want to load 35mm film directly and shoot edge to edge over the sprocket holes.

It's one of the Art Deco Rolleicords by the way.

Has anybody been along this road before?

First thoughts:

Load the film 'normally' and add some padding left and right of the film cartridge. Bubble wrap should stop it moving about mid roll.

Lightproof the red window for seeing the frame numbers on the 120 backing paper.

Hope that it advances 6cm automatically after each frame so I don't have to guess.

Mask the viewfinder with black paper to full height by 35mm wide. Then take portrait shots all the time. Landscape will be just weird to do.

Unload in the dark, and manually wind the film back into the cassette.

Hand the film (I will be using ten year old E6) into the minilab without saying what I've done. They will only freak if they knew what had been going on!

Then figure out how to scan/print the negs.

Any advice before I go ahead with this project?

 

[bmattock]

Sounds like fun. You might want to tell the lab so they don't try their moronic best to cut the slides to 35mm size and put them in slide mounts. Just have them process and return uncut. I think they'll freak no matter what.

I have the Yashica 635 with the 35mm kit. Maybe I'll do the same thing, but I'll leave out the 35mm center piece and just use the adapters that mount the roll.

BTW, the Yashica 35mm kits sometimes come up alone on eBoy. You could score the necessary parts and just disregard the rest that way if you were going to do this often enough.

Good Luck!

Bill Mattocks

 

[FrankS]

For the Rollei there is a Rollei-cine (sp?) kit like the Yashica's. As Bill suggests, leave out the film gate mask and you can accomplish what you are looking to do. There may be some film flatness issues though.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Thanks Bill. The E6 will go to a C41 minilab where they know me well (they probably call me 'the crazy English guy') and they never cut my negs.

Scanning and printing is my bottleneck at the moment.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Mmm Frank, film flatness is an issue. How do they manage those across the sprockets photos I see around? I was told to load 35mm in a 6x6 camera.

 

[FrankS]

Don't wind on (advance) the film until just before making the next exposure. That way the film may still be taut and flat.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

It sounds like more trouble than it's worth, though. I am considering getting the kit; I can get it for $35 (or was it $50? I can't remember). They come in their own little pouches/cases, so it's easy to carry around in your bag.

Just my v.h.o. If you do go ahead doing it this route, I'd be interested in finding out how it turned out.