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03/19/2015 06:30:44 PM · #1 |
| After shooting my 4x5 view camera in the 'portrait of a camera' challenge, it reminded me that I was really excited when I bought it several years ago, but I've never developed a single slide from it. I was wondering if anyone knew where I could mail my cartridges to have them developed and high-quality scanned. There's exactly one place in Dubai that happens to do slide film development, and I wasn't impressed with the 3 rolls of 35mm film I sent them the one time I tried. It'd be easy to mail it somewhere if I knew a good place, any ideas would be appreciated :) |
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03/19/2015 06:37:03 PM · #2 |
| Peak imaging here in Sheffield or mail it to me I'll take it in, I'll check with them about cost etc |
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03/19/2015 07:06:54 PM · #3 |
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03/19/2015 07:20:04 PM · #4 |
For the record, it's "sheet film", not "slide film" :-) Many labs that can develop slides (35 mm transparencies) don't have the equipment to do 4x5 and up sheet film (what I assume you're shooting in the Sinar, which I used to own one of). And the film's in "holders", not cartridges.
Unless you have some sort of roll-film back mounted on the Sinar, in which case disregard my ramblings :-) |
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03/19/2015 07:20:42 PM · #5 |
| Thanks Giles, I'll give it a look :) |
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03/19/2015 07:23:56 PM · #6 |
Thanks Bear, I just knew I was using all the wrong terminology... Yeah it's just the 'holders' with the 4x5 'sheets'.
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
For the record, it's "sheet film", not "slide film" :-) Many labs that can develop slides (35 mm transparencies) don't have the equipment to do 4x5 and up sheet film (what I assume you're shooting in the Sinar, which I used to own one of). And the film's in "holders", not cartridges.
Unless you have some sort of roll-film back mounted on the Sinar, in which case disregard my ramblings :-) |
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03/19/2015 07:45:47 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by ecmguy:
Thanks Bear, I just knew I was using all the wrong terminology... Yeah it's just the 'holders' with the 4x5 'sheets'. |
Well, if THAT's the case, then you BOUGHT holders and you BOUGHT film and you loaded the film into the holders. So now you have empty film boxes and loaded, exposed holders. So you go into the darkroom where you loaded the film and you UNLOAD it, in the dark, and put it in the original film boxes, then tape those shut, and THAT's what you send to the lab. NOT the holders themselves.
If you don't HAVE a darkroom handy (i.e. someone else loaded the holders for you) then you want one of these. They are also handy for changing lenses in dusty environments, maybe of use to you in the field. |
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03/19/2015 11:02:08 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by ecmguy:
Thanks Bear, I just knew I was using all the wrong terminology... Yeah it's just the 'holders' with the 4x5 'sheets'. |
Well, if THAT's the case, then you BOUGHT holders and you BOUGHT film and you loaded the film into the holders. So now you have empty film boxes and loaded, exposed holders. So you go into the darkroom where you loaded the film and you UNLOAD it, in the dark, and put it in the original film boxes, then tape those shut, and THAT's what you send to the lab. NOT the holders themselves.
If you don't HAVE a darkroom handy (i.e. someone else loaded the holders for you) then you want one of these. They are also handy for changing lenses in dusty environments, maybe of use to you in the field. |
Is he perhaps talking about quickload 4x5 film? In that case, the "holders" would be black envelopes containing the exposed film. |
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03/19/2015 11:49:38 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by bvy:
Is he perhaps talking about quickload 4x5 film? In that case, the "holders" would be black envelopes containing the exposed film. |
Hah, that didn't even exist in my day! Just saw it for the first time. We had POLAROID film backs so we could load individual sheets of self-developing polaroid to check things before the final (film) exposures, though. This seems to be that principle applied to actual sheet film. Brilliant! Hell of a lot more expensive than boxed film, but I guess when you factpr in the expense of film holders themselves and the hassle of working with them, it doesn't look so bad... |
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03/22/2015 11:45:45 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by bvy:
Is he perhaps talking about quickload 4x5 film? In that case, the "holders" would be black envelopes containing the exposed film. |
Hah, that didn't even exist in my day! Just saw it for the first time. We had POLAROID film backs so we could load individual sheets of self-developing polaroid to check things before the final (film) exposures, though. This seems to be that principle applied to actual sheet film. Brilliant! Hell of a lot more expensive than boxed film, but I guess when you factpr in the expense of film holders themselves and the hassle of working with them, it doesn't look so bad... |
Back in the day, I tried using the quick load packets with a Polaroid back, but I didn't like them as much as just using regular film holders because per shot they were more expensive, they sometimes didn't hold the film as flat, lots of emulsions weren't available (so you still needed to have film holders) and they were easier to screw up getting them in and out of the back. |
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