Monkeyfilter

What zsazsa said. On the APS roll, the camera exposes a series of little squares beneath the image to tell the photoprocessor what size to print that frame at. The frames themselves are all exposed at a uniform 4x7 aspect ratio. I imagine it's entirely possible to print APS negatives (in B&W of course) in a normal darkroom. If you can hack up an appropriate-sized negative carrier it should work (although you might not be able to enlarge as much due to the reduced negative size). Also, you can't cut APS, so you'd have to find a way to manage the whole roll. Removing the negatives from the cartridge is pretty simple, but requires a couple of little widgets. One is a plastic rod that has two ends -- one opens the film gate (using the hole next to the gate), the other spools out the film (using the hole in the center). This part can probably be done using a screwdriver in a fix. Detaching the negative from the cartridge is a bit tricker. There's another plastic widget that you insert alongside the film, push in, and pull out. You can simply yank the film out if you don't have this, but you may end up damaging the cartridge or the tail end of the film. In this case, you'd have to get a replacement cartridge or re-form the tail end (your local photo lab would have the little piece of equipment needed to do the latter). Re-attaching the film to the inside of the cartridge is a pain in the ass without special equipment, though (and is sometimes a pain even _with_ said equipment!).

posted by nutty industries 19 years ago

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