Topic: Wephota film - result

[sapata]

I bought this film last year especificaly to use with my old Voigtlander camera and today I realised that it can be handled "under specified safelight"... Is that normal red light ? I have tried to get the information on the web but nothing, and the company's website it's in German.

The last time I use the film I had a bit of hard time trying to fit the film in the darkslides because of it's size, which is smaller than the darkslides.

It would make my life a bit easier if I could load the slides under the red light...

[seekingfocus]

The text directly under the NP 22 at the top states:
"Only in full darkness or Greenfilter"

Maybe that will help... In general, all film loading should be done in complete darkness. Yeah, it's a pain, but even a safelight can fog film quite a bit with prolonged or direct exposure. It's just something that takes a bit of practice to get used to.

-Jason

[Tim]

Isn't if funny that everything is translated except what "specified safelight" means?

[Francois]

After first seeing the pack, Dark green safelight immediately came to mind.
While it is light, it's so dim you can hardly see anything!

The green safelight can be used to handle any pan type material... but exposure has to be for only a few seconds.

What I think is probably a better way is to keep the film in the dark and use some type of viewing device instead. That's what they do at big photo labs. I remember reading on APUG about a guy who was trying to process using some eye-clops night vision goggles from Toys 'R' Us...

There's also those night vision security cameras which use IR diodes... there's got to be a better contraption to build...

[Ed Wenn]

I remember reading on APUG about a guy who was trying to process using some eye-clops night vision goggles from Toys 'R' Us...

C'mon, dude. That was you, right? We're all friends here. You can open up to us.

 

[sapata]

The text directly under the NP 22 at the top states:
"Only in full darkness or Greenfilter"

Maybe that will help... In general, all film loading should be done in complete darkness. Yeah, it's a pain, but even a safelight can fog film quite a bit with prolonged or direct exposure. It's just something that takes a bit of practice to get used to.

-Jason

Thanks for the translation Jason 

Isn't if funny that everything is translated except what "specified safelight" means?

Totally !!

There's also those night vision security cameras which use IR diodes... there's got to be a better contraption to build...

I really really love the idea Francois !!

In the mean time I've come up with two little contraptions. I hope the snaps I took will explain better than my english... (and I'll try not to get you guys bored with this... )

Last time I use the camera I "glued" the film with honey in a piece of cardboard and then inserted in the darkslides, it worked but the film wasn't really straight. This time I did two different versions, this is because I have two different types of darkslides for this camera, four of each.

The first one I did it's a kind of "envelope" with a window, I just have to slide the film in and it's done,  I'm intending to get a little border on the film with this one... the other type it's just a plain cardboard but with some fotocorners at the bottom ( I had to use a strong cardborad with this ones because there's a very strong spring at the bottom that was meant to secure the glass plates...)

After a bit of practice with an exposed film I went to the complete darkness and loaded the 8 darkslides with no problems... I'll use the camera this weekend to check the results.

[Francois]

I remember reading on APUG about a guy who was trying to process using some eye-clops night vision goggles from Toys 'R' Us...

C'mon, dude. That was you, right? We're all friends here. You can open up to us.

 

Sadly it wasn't...
Those friggin goggles cost over 40$... 
And they never seem to come on sale...

So I think I'll keep on using my superhuman senses to do it the old fashion way (with plenty of fingerprints left as evidence )

[sapata]

A disaster I have to say but in the end I could get ONE decent shot out of the eight dark slides. Four of them got jammed with the photo cornes after exposing the film (...so annoying because I tried a million times with a dummy film! ), so the photo cornes are out.

With the other four, It was my mistake in two of them ( I forgot to close the shutter while I opened the dark slide ) and in the other one the picture came out too dark, which is also my mistake for not taking the reading properly...

At least the frames worked and I got a nice border around the film.

[jojonas~]

success! whoo~ congrats

man, there's to much interesting LF stuff here. maybe I'll build my own? who was it here that was going to/did that?

[sapata]

Thanks jojonas...

This camera is like a "mini" LF  It was made to take 3.5 X 2.5 plates... I'm sure there's plenty on the web to help you build your own... ops ! just found... http://www.raymentkirbycameras.co.uk/ 

I remember lomography use to sell one ready so assemble to be used as a LF pinhole... expect to pay a bit for that or, you can search who made it for them and get for 1/2 of the price.