Where to Find 616 B/W ?

[charles_miller5]

Where can I purchase 616 B/W for my Kodak Six-16? The stuff I've

found so far is extraordinarily expensive---like, $20 for an 8

exposure roll. Is this just the price I pay for having a Six-16?

[jordan_w.]

Have you seen Joseph Allen's thread from this forum, from a few weeks ago?

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00FS31&tag=

 

He also links to a page he wrote on the subject. http://www.geocities.com/josphy/monitor.html

[don_mckeith]

Two options--

 

use 120 film with spacers, or roll your own(70mm)- If you need spools and backing paper you can buy 1 roll of 116 film, or ping me off line I think I have one left.

[josphy]

The simplest thing, if you don't mind just shooting one roll at a time, is to just use a 616 take-up spool and use a regular 120 roll. Then when you're done, you just have to unload the film in the dark and then roll it back onto the 120 spool to send out for processing if need be. You just need to unload in the dark since the 616 spools are wider than the 120 film and you would get fogging along the edges otherwise.

[john_shriver]

But, be REALLY sure your bellows are light-tight before you invest in film for the camera. Monitors came with terrible synthetic bellows -- and the source for replacements ran out of that size.

 

Cheapest B&W film is the Efke 700 R100 at J&C Photo. Although rolls of Portra 160NC in 70mm are sometimes very cheap on eBay as well. But then you need someplace willing to develop it. My local dip & dunk lab will, but I'll have to limit the rolls to 6 exposures.

[thomas_sullivan]

"...use 120 film with spacers...".......yeah, neat trick someone told me about is to use 2 nickels (US coinage in case you live elsewhere)....one on each side of the 120 film feed roll....works great. I use it on an Agfa pd-616 folder.

[minhnguyen9113]

You can shim both ends of the 120 roll film, but remember to ask the lab return the 616 or 116 core for next time. Because you will count from 6x4.5 window so the number will be 3,6,9,12,15 and you get 5 frames for 120 roll film.

Try it and see how beautiful the pictures you get.

[josphy]

I prefer 2+"2 dots", 5, 7+2dots, 10, 12+2dots, and 15 for a total of 6 shots per roll. :-P

[minhnguyen9113]

Thank Joe. I must try the way you count this weekend to get 6 frames of 6x12, it is interesting and beautiful pictures in panorama format, by the way I cut two metal strips and Super glue them to make the film flat and the format is 55x 108.

Minh