Kodak Film Cans
Feb 9, 2019 09:22:31 #
Tony R
Loc: Westport, CT
I worked in a camera store in the early 70's and we had barrels of film cans. Kodak didn't want the cans when we sent film in for processing. Wish I'd saved some as they appear to have become collectable.
I will admit that my high school buddies had many "alternate" uses for film cans in those days and I was a very good person to know...
I will admit that my high school buddies had many "alternate" uses for film cans in those days and I was a very good person to know...
Feb 9, 2019 11:20:23 #
zebra 357
Loc: New Hampshire
Back in the 60s-70s when I was lugging my Nikons around the world, had two metal cans duct taped to the neck strap. Great storage for both exposed/unexposed film.
Feb 9, 2019 11:30:56 #
Feb 9, 2019 11:39:16 #
newriverpaddler wrote:
I, like so many of you went through lots of film cans. Last year, I had none until I found some in a Camera Store/Museum. I hesitate to tell you I paid $17.00 for three of them.
If the purchase made you happy, it was well worth it.
Feb 9, 2019 11:44:43 #
Back in those days I don't think film was that expensive compared to today even with inflation accounted for but they used metal can and included instructions.
Feb 9, 2019 11:59:54 #
Pixelmaster wrote:
A long time ago and far away Kodak and other film ... (show quote)
I have a few of the screw top aluminum ones from the 1950s to hold thumbtacks, straight pins, safety pins, brads, paper clips, and other office items. I use a lot of the plastic ones to hold nuts, bolts, screws, and other small hardware items. My favorite ones are Fujifilm cans from the 1970s. They pop open with a squeeze. I made several lamps from the 35mm by 100' film cans left over from bulk loading Tri-X in the 1970s.
Along with film cans, many labs used square, white plastic 35mm slide boxes with clear tops. I have about 50 of those left over from my AV production days in the 1980s. I use them for workshop parts leftovers. They're perfect for spare pilot lamps, wire nuts, rubber feet and bumpers, antique 45RPM record adapters, shade pulleys, washers...
Feb 9, 2019 12:00:52 #
Tony R wrote:
I worked in a camera store in the early 70's and we had barrels of film cans. Kodak didn't want the cans when we sent film in for processing. Wish I'd saved some as they appear to have become collectable.
I will admit that my high school buddies had many "alternate" uses for film cans in those days and I was a very good person to know...
I will admit that my high school buddies had many "alternate" uses for film cans in those days and I was a very good person to know...
Heh heh heh... AHEM.
Feb 9, 2019 12:10:02 #
Bipod wrote:
Agfa-Gevaert N.V. is a Belgian-German multinationa... (show quote)
My former manager related this story to me many years ago: Back in the 1960s, Agfa got into the color photo paper business. Delmar Studios, a (now defunct) school portrait lab I worked for in Charlotte from '79 to '96, decided to use their paper instead of Kodak's. (We bought paper by the truckload of 40" by 6000' master rolls!)
Unfortunately, there was a reason Agfa color paper cost less... IT SUCKED! The cyan dye layer would start to fade in less than a year, leaving a washed out, reddish image. Eventually, the yellow layer would go, too.
Needless to say, Delmar lost a LOT of business over that fiasco. They went crawling back to Kodak...
Feb 9, 2019 14:01:45 #
photoman022
Loc: Manchester CT USA
I don't have any metal cans left. I was stationed in Germany from 1972-1975. My friends and I would take the metal cans and tape them to fireworks (New Years Eve was celebrated with fireworks in my area of Bavaria). The fire crackers (bigger than the small ones you get over here!) exploded with a bigger bang and you had to run away from the flying shrapnel. The canisters were obliterated! Ahhh, to be young and drunk and in Germany for New Years!
Feb 9, 2019 14:17:06 #
Fogman
Loc: Fields Landing, California
Several years ago I had a couple of plastic grocery bags full of plastic film canisters and started to look around for someone who might think that they had a good alternative use. Turns out our county welfare department thought that they would be good for liquid soap and shampoo which they distributed to people in need. For a number of years when I accumulated enough canisters I would take them down to the department. I still shoot film but not in the quanities I once did. Just a thought if you find that you want to pass those things on.
Feb 9, 2019 14:57:30 #
I've got a few of the metal ones, yellow and silver. Also, a roll of unexposed Kodachrome 828.
Feb 9, 2019 15:57:33 #
I recall reading somewhere that Kodak was able to appropriate a patent and a formula to manufacturer and process a color slide film from Agfa at the close of WWII. And then we had Ektachrome.
The film they later sold under the Agfachrome name must have been completely different. I used a lot of it in the day, and it was really quite good except in the stability department.
And of course their B&W materials were superb.
The film they later sold under the Agfachrome name must have been completely different. I used a lot of it in the day, and it was really quite good except in the stability department.
And of course their B&W materials were superb.
Feb 9, 2019 16:00:47 #
Gatorcoach wrote:
Of course I don't know personally 
but the older guys tell me that those cans were great containers for holding marijuana and were practically waterproof.
but the older guys tell me that those cans were great containers for holding marijuana and were practically waterproof.You should find out. And they are good for that.
Feb 9, 2019 18:32:10 #
i've got about 10 of the metal colored caps ones.....funny this is mentioned, as i was rooting thru some old photo stuff boxes today...found a couple of old rolls of film one of 'em was 616 kodak....
Feb 9, 2019 18:38:37 #
scubaman65
Loc: Ragersville (Sugarcreek) Ohio
I also used them to keep matches dry when fly fishing. Also used them for keeping multiples of the same dry fly in separate cans. Does anyone remember when 35mm film was sent back to Kodak in cans in a small fabric drawstring bag that had an address label attached to it? I hitch hiked across U S in Feb of 1956 and had a number of exposed rolls which I returned to Kodak when I got to CA. Never got any of them back from Kodak, was extremely disappointed. When I made inquiries to Kodak they so generously sent me replacement rolls of film sans the photos I so wanted to see.
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