That technique was a lot easier for me to do when Kodak had the long
leaders, when they went to the short leaders, I had a very hard time
getting used to them for some reason.
Anthony Farr wrote:
Although it's a bit late in the day of film to be discussing loading
techniques.....
Early in my photography life I acquired the habit of hooking up the
leader to the take-up spool first, with the film cassette still held
in my hand. Only when the leader was firmly held in its slot or
needles did I draw the cassette across and engage it onto the rewind
shaft. This kept the leader short and stiff when hooking up to the
take-up spool, and avoided handling a slack length of leader which is
what happens when using the conventional method of rewind hookup
first, take-up hookup second.
regards, Anthony
"Of what use is lens and light
to those who lack in mind and sight"
(Anon)
2009/8/3 Joseph McAllister <[email protected]>:
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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