Re: Zero 2000 with 220er Film - experience?

From: Brian Reynolds <reynolds_at_domain.name.suppressed>
Date: Thu 04 Aug 2005 - 10:08:42 PDT

Jason Schlauch wrote:
> Strictly speaking, if film spools have an inner core that's a
> consistent size, it should be possible to determine how many degrees
> to turn the knob on any camera and have it advance one frame. You
> could mark degrees around the knob and turn it N degrees per frame.
> The downside is that I have enough problems remembering if I've wound
> the camera between frames when there are only 12 numbers to worry
> about. 360 numbers seems like a much larger headache.

The problem with that is that as film is wound onto the spool the
effective diameter of the spool changes, and the number of winds
changes.

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