{"id":15713,"date":"2019-10-08T05:10:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T09:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=15713"},"modified":"2019-10-07T22:39:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T02:39:47","slug":"100-feet-of-pan-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/100-feet-of-pan-x\/","title":{"rendered":"100 feet of Pan-X"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15716\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191007-181447-DSC07602.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15716\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15716\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/20191007-181518-DSC07603.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">100 feet of Pan-x film<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. I mentioned a while back that bulk film loads saved money. You spoolled just what you needed in 24 or 36 frame increments using new, used, or special cassettes &#8211; and a bulk film loader plus a reel of bulk film.<\/p>\n<p>100 feet came in a sealed light tight metal can 4 inches across and 35mm deep. The reel of film was encased in a light tight black paper bag and secured with a strip of paper forming a ring around the reel.<\/p>\n<p>Some colour films, like Anscochrome, were pre cut in 36 frame lengths with special template cuts marking off each 36 frame length of film. Other films, like Kodak&#8217;s Pan-X or other Kodak and Ilford black and white negative film came in simple spools of 50 or 100 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Some makers like Leitz sold special cassettes while users could buy new empty cassettes or save up used cassettes and ignore the &#8220;single use&#8221; caution (these cassettes used felt light traps which might trap dust and dirt making &#8220;tram tracks&#8221;along the film strip as each new frame was moved in place in the camera).<\/p>\n<p>I used all three varieties of cassettes over the years with no apparent difficulties. Leitz cassettes where heavy brass and used a special light tight door which opened wide once the cassette was loaded in their Leica cameras. Their cassettes started out cheap but near the the end sold for about $100 each retail!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. I mentioned a while back that bulk film loads saved money. You spoolled just what you needed in 24 or 36 frame increments using new, used, or special cassettes &#8211; and a bulk film loader plus a reel of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/100-feet-of-pan-x\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[564,2564,2808,14,2807],"class_list":["post-15713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-35mm","tag-bulk","tag-cassettes","tag-film","tag-reel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15718,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15713\/revisions\/15718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}