I'm amazed to hear that so many are still shooting a lot of film. There are
so few photo-labs left in SA now, in fact only in the big cities & nothing
in the platteland. If I shoot a film, I have to use the postal service now -
no more "1 hour service". I thought about developing my own negs again but
the idea passed after a couple of beers. Yonks ago I used to buy long strips
of 35mm B&W film from a reporter friend of mine and manually load them into
re-cycled cannisters in his darkroom. I wound it in to the limit - usually
about 50 exp. I thought the scratched negs were due to bad handling!
Alan C
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From: Mark C
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 3:33 AM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: Re: Bulk Film Loading
Thanks for that advice - I was starting to get tempted to see if I could
load up a canister with more than 36 exposures. But then - who needs to
take more than 36 shots at any one time? :-)
Mark
On 7/19/2013 7:45 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
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 <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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