I’m going to reveal myself as a noob with this question, but please help me out. I have been scanning tons of 35mm film with my Valoi film holder, but now I’ve encountered a small collection of family negatives from the 60s shot on film that that shares the same overall dimensions as 35mm, but with sprocket holes on only one side. The exposed area itself is approx. 29mmx29mm.
I can feed this through my Valoi film holder, but when I do I lose a significant chunk of the image that exists where sprockets would normally be and is therefore covered by the film holder. My question is: does anyone know of a film holder that would work with this format? Here’s an image of the film in question next to a piece of 35mm:
My second question is: does anyone have suggestions for an APS film holder? I’ve also come across about two dozen rolls of APS film, and I see that Valoi makes one, but for almost $100 after shipping and duties for something that looks much lower quality than my other holder from them, I’m hesitant to go for it.
Any suggestions or input would be greatly appreciated.
See if the Andrew Clifforth at Essential Film Holder has masks for those formats. It’s not expensive. I know the guy makes one for 35mm that shows the entire width including sprocket holes
Hi Finn,
I use Valoi 360. I scan all my 135 negatives with a 35mm Full-Border-Holder (44 EUR).
Recently, I found a a 50+ year old Kodak Instamatic 255X. I managed to reload it with 35mm film. As I did not want to spend another 44 EUR on a dedicated 126 holder I used the full-border one.
As for your questions: The full border-holder does not show the upper part of the black frame of a 126 negative. However, for my purpose - old familiy negatives and 35mm-reloaded actual pics with sprocket holes and film number that is more than good enough.
I attach pictures of the holder plus one with a “real” 126 frame and another with a “reloaded” 126 on 135 film.
Shooting 126 is fun. The quality is much better than I expected (Kodak Gold 200). However, you sometimes get partly double exposure. But that’s a different story.
For the APS film cartridges, Canon made a viewer/film holder. The APS cartridges still have the developed film inside. That can be cumbersome to extract the film and then rewind it. This is like a camera, just insert the cartridge and advance. What looks like a camera lens is the viewer. Just hold it up to a light and examine the negative. Remove the lens and it sits on your light source ready to scan with a camera. I got mine on Ebay. They are as old as the format!
