[LargeFormat] provia film jamming in Film holder

Ole Tjugen largeformat@f32.net
Tue Aug 20 05:14:16 2002


Putting the film in the darkslide slots should do it. Another possibility is 
that you've got a batch of film which is slightly too large - it happens quite 
often if you stuff 13x18cm film in 5x7" holders ;)

Ole


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>===== Original Message From Les Newcomer <lnphoto@twmi.rr.com> =====
>The only time I've had film jam a film holder was when I miss loaded the
>holder and had the film in the darkslide slots.
>
>Les
>
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>>> I have been in Spain for the past two weeks, and very nice it was
>>> too! I
>> did
>>> have a problem with Fuji Provia film, in particular it jammed several
>> times
>>> when I was replacing the darkslide after taking a shot, on one
>>> occasion I
>>> managed to make a hole in the slide! (tough stuff, Fuji film) I had no
>>> problems with FP4. Anyone else have this problem? Is it heat related?
>> (the
>>> temperature was in the 30s, probably the 40s in the sun).
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