Brother Bruce wrote: > Has anyone else found the same as me or is it just my style. I have > found that I can load reasonably fast and without much fumbling at > all. But for shear speed, Fuji wins for me.
I've found the same sort of thing. The differences are minor but Fuji 120 is definitely far easier to load than Kodak 120. Have you noticed that Fuji puts a hole in the paper leader which slots into a plastic knob inside their takeup spool? You have to shoot two consecutive rolls of Fuji to notice this. It makes the loading much easier. I keep switching between Fuji and Kodak so I don't often get to take advantage of it :) I seem to recall Agfa's system having a nice feature but I don't remember now. I rarely shoot Agfa, but I have been keen to try out some Portrait 160 in 6x7. In fact I bought a few cheap rolls of it a couple of months ago. The cross never caused me any problems though. I still need to get used to taking the exposed roll out of the Pentax 6x7. Maybe I should take a leaf out of Tom's book and just lick the sealing strip while its still in the camera. Now there's a good survey: who's 120/220 sealing strips taste the best :) - Brother Dave - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
