Resist any temptation to load more than 36 exposures. It will scratch the film unless you are using an ultra thin film such as H&W Control Pan film. I had better luck with metal canisters with a snap on end than the plastic canisters with a screw on end.
Jeffery On Jul 19, 2013, at 6:32 PM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been shooting a bit of 35mm B&W these days and finally broke down and > bought a daylight loader for bulk rolls and some reloadable canisters. I'm > sure someone here has done or does do the bulk film loading thing... Question > that I'm wondering about - is there any problem with just putting the 100 > foot roll into the loader and then filling canisters as needed, or is there a > reason why you should load up the whole bulk roll in one session? Although I > do shoot a fair amount of film it would take a month or two to use up the > approximately 20 rolls I'd get out of a 100 foot roll.. Is it OK to just load > up a few canisters as needed, which means the bulk roll would be stored in > the loader, or should I load it all up at once? > > TIA - > > Mark > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
