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Oct 31, 2007 20:07 |  #1

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

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Oct 31, 2007 20:08 |  #2

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


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Oct 31, 2007 20:10 as a reply to  @ SkipD's post |  #3

I thought it looked like an old film canister.


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Oct 31, 2007 20:11 |  #4

Ummm.... a really oldschool film canister?


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Nov 01, 2007 00:00 as a reply to  @ Jim G's post |  #5

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.




  
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Nov 01, 2007 00:28 |  #6

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


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Nov 01, 2007 08:10 |  #7

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.


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Nov 01, 2007 08:26 |  #8

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


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Nov 01, 2007 10:27 |  #9

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


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Nov 01, 2007 11:52 |  #10

I've got six of them...


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Nov 01, 2007 12:08 |  #11

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


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Nov 01, 2007 13:33 |  #12

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.


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Nov 02, 2007 09:28 |  #13

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.

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Nov 02, 2007 11:19 as a reply to  @ SkipD's post |  #14

How well do they work with a D300?




  
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Nov 02, 2007 12:13 |  #15

20droger wrote in post #4239122 (external link)
How well do they work with a D300?

:rolleyes::p


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