Old photo "device"

[JWright]

Rummaging aroung in my stuff tonight I found this...

http://JohnWright.smugmug.com/photos/215640881-L.jpg

[SkipD]

Neat! A hard-sided lens case!!! ;)

[Karl C]

I thought it looked like an old film canister.

[Jim G]

Ummm.... a really oldschool film canister?

[20droger]

On a recent CSI, they found a body from the 50s with such a canister on it. The body had been buried for 50+ years, and the film in the canister (which was crushed, by the way) was still good. They developed it to identify the bad guy.

Ah, they just don't make film like they used to.

[NZDoug]

I paid $20 bucks for a one a year ago as I needed it as a prop for a shot.....
Mine said "KODAK"

[rhys]

They stopped making those during the Vietnam war because they found them getting crushed by photographers leaping for cover and landing on them. This meant they were very hard to open and had to be cut open. The plastic cannisters used now don't have the problem. Once the screw thread was damaged, that was the end for aluminium film cannisters. They're worth a mint now.

[PhotosGuy]

I paid $20 bucks for a one a year ago as I needed it as a prop for a shot..... They're worth a mint now. So... how many would you like at $20 apiece? I'll even throw in free shipping! :D

[KirkHMB]

I have an orange and yellow one laying around somewhere, dad gave it to me. He used slide film in a stereo camera.

[JWright]

I've got six of them...

[eesparx]

Haven't seen one of those in eons. Thanks for sharing.

[SkipD]

I just found my stash of 24 Nikon film cassettes from 1967. These are the type that you load bulk film into over and over. I plan to, after I've cleaned a few up, take a photo of some of them and post the photo here.

I even found that I had one old aluminum film can, complete with a yellow top.

[SkipD]

Here's a photo of some of my 24 Nikon film cassettes and my bulk loader, all circa 1967.

The cassettes are a 3-piece affair (see the disassembled one at the left). The inner shell is rotated so that the openings are 180° apart to keep the light out. The camera (a Nikon F) rotates the inner shell to align the openings once the camera is closed up with the film cassette inside. Thus, the film does not get dragged across a felt surface which could scratch the film.
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You can see the ASA reminder on the end of the cassette in the center of the shot. You rotate the ring so that the film's ASA value lines up with the red dot for color film or the white dot for B&W film.

Note - these cassettes are carried as you see them. They don't need to have cannisters around them to keep them from being damaged.

[20droger]

How well do they work with a D300?

[SkipD]

How well do they work with a D300?:rolleyes::p

[JWright]

Skip,

I can't even recall how much black and white film I bulk loaded way back when. It has to have been miles...