Thanks for the tip Piers. After a bit of Google searching my suspicions fall on
616 as the likely type. I'm guessing that Uncle Bill took an old folding camera
to his naval duties to save on space. I'm quite excited to see what's in this
stack as one of the family sold the albums that cover that era in this
collection before we could get to them.
Thanks also for the nod on an ANR glass source.
Thanks, Dan
> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 21:43:33 +0100
> From: piers@xxxxxxxx
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] OT Film Format ID help
>
> 116?
>
> No idea of the camera, sorry.
>
> For ANR glass try some medium format enlarger glass.
>
> Piers
> On 31 Aug 2014 21:41, "Daniel Sepke" <dansepke@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > So I am tackling a family film scanning project and have a pile of
> > negatives from the late 1940s to around maybe 1953, I think. On first look
> > it appeared to be 120 but its a bit wider at 68mm. The first couple were
> > 6x9 and I thought it might be badly cut sheets from a mini speed graphic
> > style camera. But the next group are 6x4.5 and definitely roll film not
> > sheets. Those frame sizes are approximate of course. Sadly the only people
> > who would have known the cameras these came out of have passed. The film is
> > proving to be hard to mount for my Epson V700 as they curl when placed
> > directly on the platen so I'm going to have to investigate ANR glass to
> > hold them down in 8x10 transparency mode.
> >
> > So my question is, any idea what format this 68mm wide roll film is? And
> > any guesses on what cameras it might have been run through?
> >
> > Thanks, Dan
> >
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