> I bought my changing bag to shoot with infrared film, as it requires loading and unloading in total darkness.
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Just note that nearly all changing bags are not infrared opaque. This means that if you use the changing bag in the direct sun then you will certainly fog infrared film. For other film you should be just fine.
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george
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 00:38:43 EDT
Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Re: pinhole-discussion-digest V1 #78
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><U>RE: [pinhole-discussion] Making pinholes without a darkroom?</U></FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV> Please add the following to suggestions from George Smyth and Peter Wiklund: buy an inexpensive changing bag to load, unload a pinhole's film, and then load film canisters for processing. This would work for 35mm, medium format, and at least for loading and unloading larger pinhole cameras that use photo paper as negatives. I bought my changing bag to shoot with infrared film, as it requires loading and unloading in total darkness. What's more, location shoots can be far from labs and darkrooms, so I still keep my changing bag in the car trunk. </DIV>
<DIV> Although it does not provide room to print, this multipurpose, portable pouch is a darkroom alternative when encountering mechanical issues re film and sensitized paper. </DIV>
<DIV> To reduce "blind fumbling" in a changing bag, any pinhole camera can be adapted to provide tactile landmarks for film and pinhole top alignment. Small clothing buttons or even smaller rubber disks or "feet"--like ones that stabilize various electronic devices--can be superglued to the pinhole's exterior to approximate film or paper negative placement in the pinhole's interior while in the changing bag. </DIV>
<DIV> A changing bag has a simple but clever construction of zippered "locks" similar in principle to many conventional darkroom baffle doors.</DIV>
<DIV> Also darkroom free: Polaroid 35mm instant monochrome and color slide films, used with an electronic, very portable autoprocessor. Following a foolproof, 3-minute automated run of exposed film, you can print the chromes with Daylabs.<EM> </EM>I am unable, however, to comment on roll film for pinholes.</DIV></BODY></HTML>
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