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Response to Bulk loading and the Zone system

from Ted Kaufman (writercrmp@aol.com)
In *The Book of Pyro*, by Gordon Hutchings (the creator of PMK developer), he mentions using 3 backs when he shoots rollfilm: one N, one +1.5, the other -1.5. This seems more workable to me than shooting with 5 different rolls in one stop increments. But I do agree, this approach seems a lot better than 6 exp. rolls.

The only reservation I have is you run the risk of picking up a bit of grit on one of the rolls by having them loose in your camera bag and repeatatively loading and unloading them. You could encounter some terrific scratches. I would, therefore, strongly recommend you keep the rolls in snap-top film containers. Grit is the bane of reloading, so I would also recommend you limit the number of times you reload cassettes to 2 or 3 times.

(posted 8361 days ago)

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