Nikon film cassettes/cartriges/magazines...

[Cale Arthur]

...I went down and filled the trunk with 8400 ft of film!

Holy smokes, what a haul!

I may have had a bit of a breakthrough in finding some XX.. i hope it 'pan's out. I'll know more in the next day or so... if it's not going to happen anytime soon, i'll just get a 100' roll of KB100, and see where that leads me.

I've heard tell that these films are lubricated somehow.. it makes sense for the speed at which they probably travel through a movie camera, but they're still safe for use in 'regular' 35mm cameras.. very interesting.

Cale

 

[Xmas]

Guys nice thread so far....

After reading Brians post earlier I tried one of my Nikon F cassettes which still has the Feb73 label on it, (sold F in '74) and the cassette does not seem to want to squeese in to my 77xxxxx F2, I tried it without a spool, still no way, any one else confirm? Nikon are good on info in user handbooks any one got a F2 handbook?

Noel

 

[Dfin]

Just tried my AM1 cassette in my `73 F, no go. Spacer in the bottom of the camera back prevents back from closing. ONLY works in F2. No info on earlier cassettes.

 

[Tom A]

Holy smokes, what a haul!

I may have had a bit of a breakthrough in finding some XX.. i hope it 'pan's out. I'll know more in the next day or so... if it's not going to happen anytime soon, i'll just get a 100' roll of KB100, and see where that leads me.

I've heard tell that these films are lubricated somehow.. it makes sense for the speed at which they probably travel through a movie camera, but they're still safe for use in 'regular' 35mm cameras.. very interesting.

Cale

Cale, just posted some stuff shot with XX and AP 250 on my Flicker site. The only problem I have ever encountered with the XX/AP 250 is that the sprocket holes have a slightly different pitch than "regular" 35mm film. It has never been a problem in my M/Nikon RF's, but if you use motordrives (F 36/MD2's and SL Mot's) the different pitch can "accumulate" and jam the motor. One exception is the SL Mot, which cheerfully keeps feeding film and shredding the perforations. When you open the camera to unload you have three strips, the bottom and top part, the center part with the image and lots of small pieces of film that used to be between the sprocket holes! The Horizon 202 also dislikes the different pitch, but then this camera tends to jam for no reason anyway, so it could be coincidental!

 

[darkprints]

Just tried my AM1 cassette in my `73 F, no go. Spacer in the bottom of the camera back prevents back from closing. ONLY works in F2. No info on earlier cassettes.

Thanks - you saved me some grief - I was about to bid on some AM-1's for my '69 & '71 F's.

 

[Xmas]

So we could assume that the rangefinders, the F and the F2 casettes are not back or forwards compatible until some one says otherwise.

Groan...

On a bright side the FSU casettes I use seem to be ok in Kievs, Zorkis and Feds, but I'm still investigating this, the FSU stuffs Nikon on utility! The Zeiss Contax cassettes are ok in Kievs as well.

Noel
P.S. Movie stock should only be different on the perforations size and shape these are designed for running in the proff cameras at speed, without jumping the image frame to frame, proff cameras sprockets were designed to mate with the film. There were three standards, the film cams the film projector and the still cameras. The film projectors film had to tolerate wear and tear as the cinemas ran the released film again and again and again.
(sorry about edit)

 

[Cale Arthur]

Cale, just posted some stuff shot with XX and AP 250 on my Flicker site.

Ah, excellent, Tom. I'll be heading over there presently.. thanks for the heads up!

The only 'motor' drives i have are on my Canon Dial 35's, so thankfully no 'sprocket tearing' worries for me..

For what it's worth, i'm really digging this thread! Thanks, y'all!

Cale