Re: Removing top-bottom curl

[Tom Deering <tmd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/25/99, Paul Talbot wrote:
>Anyone have some good tips on how to remove top-bottom
>curl from rolls of 120 film?  (The film is lying flat
>left to right, but bows top to bottom.)

I try to pick up my film from the lab promptly so it doesn't sit 
rolled up for a long time.  I reverse roll it at the lab, and when I 
get home, I put it on a flat surface with a weight on top.  Handled 
this way, my film lays flat as a board.

If the film already has a curl to it, the only thing that seems to 
fix it for me is to press it a very long time.  Reverse rolling at 
this point just makes it wavy, not flat.  This is my experience, and 
I'm no expert, so I'd like to hear what others have to say.

I made a film press out of plexiglas, and it stays there until I cut 
it up.  You can look at a photo on my web site, but it's just a 
really long plastic box.

Tom

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