Loved the concept. It worked. But I could never break myself of the
habit of putting a lengthwise curl on the film to stiffen it to try to
insert it into the needles. That just never worked right, and the
force to insert the film deep enough to be certain the film would stay
put usually folded the film.
What worked on the second try was holding the film on both sides with
little sticking out, and pushing on it while I let my fingers part
around the spool.
Any other ways tried left the film crooked between the needles, which
did not then self straighten as you wound the film, creating a bump in
the film as it wound.
In other words, it worked, but I personally found it awkward. If I had
done as I did when I learned to load film on 135 and 120 Nikor reels,
and practiced for a few dozen times before trying it in haste, I
probably would have loved it.
On Aug 2, 2009, at 16:46 , Adam Maas wrote:
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Dario Bonazza<[email protected]
> wrote:
Adam Maas wrote:
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:35 AM, P. J. Alling<[email protected]
wrote:
(and did I mention I hate those damned magic needles?)
Who doesn't?
Never had a problem with the magic needles thing. My first SLR has
been a MX
and I've done quite a lot af astrophotography with it in the early
days.
Changing rolls in the dark has never been a problem for me, as
there was no
need to look for film slots in the take-up spool. Just push the
leader into
any magic needles and it's done!
Dario
I found the needles to be exactly the opposite, very fiddly to load.
Could never get the bloody things to go in right and stay that way.
The best loading system I've used for mechanical-wind 35mm bodies was
the Canon QL system.
Joseph McAllister
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