Are you sure they are 100 ft rolls? Mostly seem to be 30 m which is 97.5 feet.How easy is it to get 15 rolls of 36 out of 100ft roll?
The big advantage of bulk film, of course, is that you are not restricted to 36 exposure rolls. I mainly roll what I expect to use which might well be 10 frames. That is a slightly less economic use of the bulk roll as I waste more on leaders etc but then I am not shooting a whole 36 exposures once I have finished my project at, say, 17 frames.
Are you sure they are 100 ft rolls? Mostly seem to be 30 m which is 97.5 feet.
Yea I usually find 36 a few too many actually, 24 is usually better for me.The big advantage of bulk film, of course, is that you are not restricted to 36 exposure rolls. I mainly roll what I expect to use which might well be 10 frames. That is a slightly less economic use of the bulk roll as I waste more on leaders etc but then I am not shooting a whole 36 exposures once I have finished my project at, say, 17 frames.
I use sellotape to fix the film end to the spool. Never had one come off yet.Any tip for making sure the film won’t come off the spool? I practiced with what film was in the loader and one of 2 rolls came off inside the camera
Cool. That’s what I used the first time, I do think I tried to force it, I cut a roll of 36 into 2 and rolled them into the canniters to test it so I had no idea how many frames I hadI use sellotape to fix the film end to the spool. Never had one come off yet.
Be gentle!Cool. That’s what I used the first time, I do think I tried to force it, I cut a roll of 36 into 2 and rolled them into the canniters to test it so I had no idea how many frames I had
I will be from now on!Be gentle!
When I get round to it I want to practice taping the film to the cannister in the changing bag, cutting it away from the bulk roll too, hopefully cut down on wasteI've bulk rolled and when I know I'm reaching the end of the film I take more care when winding on. Mostly because I don't trust the film not to come away from the spool. At some point I intend to upgrade from the Watson teardrop shape loader to one of the more efficient AP/ Kaiser types. From what I can make out they appear to waste less film as the spool/ canister sits much closer to the film gate.
When I get round to it I want to practice taping the film to the cannister in the changing bag, cutting it away from the bulk roll too, hopefully cut down on waste
I haven’t actually, I’ve been more focused on medium format at the moment. But I don’t think it would be too hard, I did a test roll I’d made and I hadn’t stuck it enough and it came away from the film canister so I had to re stick it down, wasn’t that difficult, with practice would be easy I’d have thoughtDid you manage to try this? I have thought about doing it myself but figured I would make a mess of it in a changing bag. I have thought about trying it in a completely dark room if possible as I think I would be less likely to get the sellotape stuck on the bag.