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Indeed. The owner of a company I used to work for would tell his customers "you can have anything you like, whenever you want it as long as you can afford it".Quote:
Originally Posted by Mustafa Umut Sarac
I wouldn't expect a small scale home emulsion coater to buy the parts for a rotary die cutter. I would do it with a miniature version of a paper hole punch with pins to register the cut to the previous cut holes. This would be very easy to set up.
Steve.
My RB67, P6 TL, and several TLRs do index the film without numbers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Athiril
But the folders and box cameras all have a window.
And I *LIKE* my Mother's Brownie Hawkeye.
I do agree that sheet film is a lot easier. And even at the width of 120 I have a bunch of 2.35x3.25 holders.
Plus i have a stash (No! It's not a hoard!) of glass window panes. So I too would probably try very little roll film.
When I think about the possibility of home manufacturer I invariably think small scale, dozens instead of thousands. The investment to make occasional new backing paper seems trivial compared to a perforating machine. Unless you can get or fabricate the perfing machine vey inexpensively.
For a small manufacturing operation, say 5K rolls of film, a usable perfing machine begins to make sense. And you could sell the film packed in a wrapper for the user to spool. Eschewing the cassettes.
I have some oddball FSU film in my freezer which is packed this way. It's just a strip of perforated 35mm film. The user had to load it in a cassette.
Some of the old Contax cameras had a refillable cassette.
MB
I used to work for his metaphysical twin in a metrology laboratory. In metrology each extra zero at the right of the decimal costs geometrically more money.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Smith
Occasionally someone would complain if we calibrated something to one or two decimal places. Wes would tell them just bring it back and they could get as many zeros as they could pay for.
MB