Filmwasters
Which Board? => Main Forum => Topic started by: Skorj on November 26, 2009, 10:08:51 AM
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Nice! I wonder what it takes to respool 35mm into Rapid carts? Because this little kitten is gorgeous!
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To get my Beirette working I just yanked some 35mm out of a regular cannister in a dark bag and pushed it into the rapid cassette. It sort of worked...enough for me to be able to try out the camera at least. Worth a go.
This S2 does indeed look excellent. I curse the rapid system. So many great cameras...such a stupid format!
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Looked so interesting I googed it and found http://photo.net/classic-cameras-forum/00GsGE (http://photo.net/classic-cameras-forum/00GsGE)
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And if it's of help. I measured the length of the film which was in the Myrapid I got recently. It was 24 inches long. That was for 24 half frame exposures.
Apparantly there were two speeds of film available. In the Myrapid there's a lug on the cassette which effects the meter setting to take the film speed into account. I've not found any informtion on what the speeds were though.
If you're going to reload the cassette then I guess you need to know what film speed the cassette is designed for. So far, I haven't tried.
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This camera is gorgeous !
I have an Agfa Iso Rapid and never tried using it...
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I was recently given an Agfa Isoflash-Rapid so have been doing a lot of research on the Afga Rapid cassettes. It appears the Rapid cassettes were designed for 12 full-frames, 16 squares, or 24 half-frames.
My particular camera counts down from 16 frames, and I had been pondering/lamenting the idea of processing such short rolls, but I came across some posts where other people have successfully loaded 24 full-frames in a Rapid cassette without issue. So the typical trick is to load a cassette, shoot a set, then just open the back and close it again to reset the frame counter, shoot the second set, and then process the batch either commercially or at home.
Some other people have found that some disposable cameras have a similar but slightly smaller plastic cassette that can occasionally be retrieved from a local minilab if finding Rapid cassettes is challenging. There doesn't seem to be good data on which models of disposables might have them, though.
The pin length on the metal T is to automatically designate the film speed for cameras that support it, and some may have ASA speed stamped into the T as well. ASA 80 seemed to be prevalent, and many people seem to have success shooting various flavors of modern ASA 100 film.
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Welcome to the forum Jack. I'm sure we'd all like to see some results from your Agfa Isoflash-Rapid.
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Thanks, Peter! Unfortunately, I'm still one cassette short.
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There's a couple of lots on the bay now. One lot at http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3-vintage-Agfa-Karat-Rapid-35mm-film-cassettes-/250748631294 though they don't seem to have the metal T piece for the ISO setting. But maybe OK as a take up spool.
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Thanks, Peter! Unfortunately, I'm still one cassette short.
They show up - like their cameras - in Japan regularly too. Check the 'Resources' section here perhaps, as you may well be able to place an order with one of the shops listed. Good luck! Skj.
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... and we have the D1 too!
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Nice. But I still like the design of the S2 better.