There's a guy in Massachusetts who does the best job remanufacturing 120 to 620 that I've seen. He turns the ends down trims the edge to spec. and adds a metal insert so the 620 film advance key matches perfectly. His product looks like real quality work. He only seems to sell TMax 100 but his prices are actually a lot lower than B&H photo charges for a roll of TMax 100 in 620. Unfortunately the price differential, and the ease of re-spooling 120 film to 620, if you've done any darkroom work at all, means that most long term 620 users will roll their own which limits repeat sales. I've also gotten a "new" plastic 620 spool recently. Not re-manufactured but made that way from scratch, which also seems to be quality work. That tooling may still exist somewhere.
graywolf wrote: > Seems like there would be enough of a market to make it worthwhile tooling up > to produce a few thousand of the things. However at least one company > produces 620 by turning down the spool flanges on 120 film. That seems to be > the main difference although I believe 120 spools are a bit shorter than than > 620 spools as well. > > graywolf > http://www.graywolfphoto.com > http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf > "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" > ----------------------------------- > > > P. J. Alling wrote: > >> As some of you may know, I enabled myself with a Kodak Medalist II some >> time ago, which has a magnificent 100mm f3.5 lens. Unfortunatly this >> camera takes 620 size film. Fortunatly 120 film can be re-rolled onto >> 620 spools and it works just fine. However I'm on the lookout for 620 >> film spools to have a reasonable supply on hand ready to go. Look at >> the price for EMPTY spools in this auction. >> >> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBUAA:US:11&Item=170133849423 >> >> > > -- The difference between Microsoft and 'Jurassic Park': In one, a mad businessman makes a lot of money with beasts that should be extinct. The other is a film. -- Unattributed -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
