The one I've got is like a bake-lite box with a compartment the big roll
goes in & a smaller compartment the cartridge goes in. There's a slot in
the loader with a felt wiper similar to the slot on the film cartridges,
so all that gets exposed is the leader you attach to the cartridge & the
leader you leave out to attach to the take up in the camera.
You get a little bit of waste film on each end of the cartridge, but how
much you save depends on how much you're paying for the bulk film & how
hard it is to find that film in factory loaded cartridges.
Half my refrigerator is taken up right now with bulk loaded cartridges,
a bulk loader & bulk rolls of film. And I didn't pay a penny for any of
it. Someone who made the decision to go completely digital & never shoot
film again gave it to me.
The other half is factory loaded cartridges, 120 film & 4x5 sheet film
... plus several boxes of B&W paper in various sizes.
At the rate I'm using it, some of it will still be in there when I die.
But that's still better than just chucking it into the landfill.
On 7/19/2013 7:44 PM, Zos Xavius wrote:
I'm curious. You can load the rolls in daylight without a changing
bag? How much money do you think you are saving over regular rolls?
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Darren Addy <pixelsmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
It has been a long time since I have done bulk loading. Bulk loaders
are so cheap right now, that one could have several with a different
kind of film in each (assuming one shoots more than one kind of film).
No need to bulk load the entire roll in one session. To do that you
would need a pretty big supply of reloadable canisters. Obviously, the
more exposures you put in one canister the fewer you need (and the
fewer frames lost to waste), but one of the advantages of bulk loading
is that you can make 12 exposure rolls (if you like). Less time with
film waiting in the camera for exposures to finish a roll (as often
happens with longer rolls).
Dust is your enemy. I'd suggest keeping the bulk loader in a gallon
zip-lock baggie with a packet of silica gel.
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Mark C <pdml-m...@charter.net> 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
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