RE: [APML] Film Destoryed

[Robert Sherwood <photorob00@yahoo.com>]

Some companies also make 8 exposure rolls targeted for people who take 
relatively few pictures frequently (insurance adjusters, real estate 
agents, police photographers...), so short rolls typically aren't a 
problem.  I've occasionally had to load small sections from a broken roll 
of film as short as 3 or 4 frames.  At times I've brought my camera into a 
darkroom, cut off the film and loaded the used portion into a temporary 
cannister - for those times I've had pictures I wanted to see right away, 
but didn't want to waste the half or third of a roll still remaining.

At the other extreme, I know a press photographer who wanted to see how 
much film she could squeeze into a roll using a bulk loader.  The total 
length was around 45 frames plus the leaders.  Some minilab equipment has a 
maximum length of around 40 frames, so these extra-long rolls might have 
problems there unless trimmed before printing, although that obviously 
isn't the concern in this discussion.

--Rob


> > The only question I have is, will photo labs accept a partial roll of
> > film for development? Or will their machines balk at processing a
> > non-standard length of film?
>
>I'm not sure, but I think it's no problem. Considering that there are
>12-, 24- and 36-exposure films anyway, and some manufacturers make
>"24+3" films, so there's probably no "standard length". I have
>experimented with loading film into a used single-use camera, and had to
>cut down a 36-exposure roll to about 20-30 exposures, and no lab ever
>balked at developing those.

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