On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 11:03:06PM +0200, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > Am 03.07.19 um 22:50 schrieb P. J. Alling: > > > Kodak didn't care about > > making cameras really, they sold film which every camera needed, one of > > their engineers was once said to have remarked that the packaging of a > > 35mm film cartridge cost more than the film inside. > > If these cameras had been made by Epson they would have wasted half a > dozen frames each time you changed the lens. > > Ralf
Well, 35mm cartridges *did* waste several frames every time you loaded new film (which is a closer analogy to changing an ink cartridge). You had one or two frames worth of film as leader to connect to the take-up spool, the two frames you had to advance once you'd closed the back of the camera, and that extra bit of film after the last full frame you could expose. That's something like 10% or more of overhead even on a 36-shot roll of film. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
