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Doug Kerr
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I recently acquired a nice Kodak Retina Ia (Type 010) foldng full-frame 35-mm camera (made in early 1949 as near as I can tell from the serial number). From the feel of the wind and rewind knobs, I could tell that there was film in it, which I duly rewound. (It took a lot of rewinding!)
I opened the back to find a nice Kodak 20-exposure 135 cartridge marked "Panatomic X". I sent it off to be developed, asking that the negative be returned uncut and that the empty cartidge also be returned, which indeed happened.
The negative had very bad large-scale "blotching" from end to end. It looked as if 4 shots had been taken, one of which looks as if it will produce a usable image, and one almost so. I will scan the negative and wallop the images to see what I can get. Evidently the film had been "wound on" quite a bit after the last real shoot.
But the big surprise is that apparently this was a "reload" cartridge. There was no latent image manufacturer's name on the strip, only (every foot) the letters "S___X" (spaced out a bit - I used the underscores here to symbolize that) plus a six-digit footage number. Perhaps it was a reload with motion picture film (I recall that was pretty common at one time).
I don't recall exactly what the standard full length of a 20-exposure 135 load is, but 20 8-perf frames themselves take up 30". The overall length of this strip (after it lost its leader tongue in the lab) is 65"!
Does anyone recognize the signficance of the "S___X" marking, or have other clues as to what kind of film this might be?
Thanks.
I opened the back to find a nice Kodak 20-exposure 135 cartridge marked "Panatomic X". I sent it off to be developed, asking that the negative be returned uncut and that the empty cartidge also be returned, which indeed happened.
The negative had very bad large-scale "blotching" from end to end. It looked as if 4 shots had been taken, one of which looks as if it will produce a usable image, and one almost so. I will scan the negative and wallop the images to see what I can get. Evidently the film had been "wound on" quite a bit after the last real shoot.
But the big surprise is that apparently this was a "reload" cartridge. There was no latent image manufacturer's name on the strip, only (every foot) the letters "S___X" (spaced out a bit - I used the underscores here to symbolize that) plus a six-digit footage number. Perhaps it was a reload with motion picture film (I recall that was pretty common at one time).
I don't recall exactly what the standard full length of a 20-exposure 135 load is, but 20 8-perf frames themselves take up 30". The overall length of this strip (after it lost its leader tongue in the lab) is 65"!
Does anyone recognize the signficance of the "S___X" marking, or have other clues as to what kind of film this might be?
Thanks.