retrofocus wrote:
It works with 120 film, so I added Ilford FP4+ 125 B&W film which I developed with Xtol. The camera produces an approx. 5.5x8.5 cm negative on the 120 film plane. Since this Ilford film doesn't contain the frame counter marking which the camera is designed for to look through the back plate, I had to estimate the winding needed after each exposure.
All the Ilford 120 films have frame numbers on the backing paper, but they're not very easy to see through the red window (or maybe they're not lining up with the window on your camera). They're fairly light gray. Fomapan films have the best backing paper -- those frame numbers are bold, black, large, and easy to read. The worst backing paper I've found is from Cinestill; the numbers are very faint, totally impossible to read through the red window, and not even easy to read in broad daylight after you've developed the film.