Mind over matter

[Tigger.ufo]

WOO HOO!!!

Managed to get todays Fomapan 100 onto the spiral in 3 minutes!

...and no intervention from Benji the (not) savage!

RESULT!

Heather

 

[joxby]

Congratulations !!


although, I gotta say, you must have been particularly useless if your back up film spooler is a.............dog..

no matter.....the more you do, the easier it gets but I'd leave 3200 alone for a bit..

 

[Asha]

Yeah well done!

Rest assured you will revert back at times to an irritated, sweaty frustrating 10 minute load spiral time at some point ......happens to us all occasionally regardless of experience.

Get some EFKE 127......now that is a **** to spool......not once have I got it to take first time yet!

 

[Tigger.ufo]

Congratulations !!


although, I gotta say, you must have been particularly useless if your back up film spooler is a.............dog..

no matter.....the more you do, the easier it gets but I'd leave 3200 alone for a bit..

He is not my back up spooler, he is the cat in my avatar!

......and this was the intervention yesterday in the 101 ways to ruin a film thread!

Quote:
Originally Posted by excalibur2
erm just practice and the spiral has to be perfectly dry and I've found it's no problem on the different versions and makes I've used. even got one where the spiral is sagging cos I used a hair dryer on it. My moan is the lid on one/some is not very well designed as I've carried one full of chemicals holding the lid when it wasn't screwed on properly and the rest of tank crashed to the ground and everything was ruined

Oh yes, just another little thing I had to deal with was having to re-wash my spirals as my cat decided to pee on them!

....so then I had to make sure they were dry again.

Heather

....so I am really pleased he didn't "intervene" today!

Heather

 

[Tigger.ufo]

Yeah well done!

Rest assured you will revert back at times to an irritated, sweaty frustrating 10 minute load spiral time at some point ......happens to us all occasionally regardless of experience.

Get some EFKE 127......now that is a **** to spool......not once have I got it to take first time yet!

....better than the hour it took me yesterday!

Heather

 

[simon ess]

Congratulations

This evening I processed my 5th film.

The main feature was going through that emotional turmoil - "will I easily get it on the reel, or will I, like last time, spend a sweaty, anxious 20 minutes hoping I haven't got too many fingerprints on it; hoping I haven't scratched it too much and despairing of ever getting it on at all?

It went OK in the end.

 

[Asha]

Congratulations

This evening I processed my 5th film.

The main feature was going through that emotional turmoil - "will I easily get it on the reel, or will I, like last time, spend a sweaty, anxious 20 minutes hoping I haven't got too many fingerprints on it; hoping I haven't scratched it too much and despairing of ever getting it on at all?

It went OK in the end.

Sometimes when all appears to go wrong in the changing bag and it feels like the film will be ruined with fingerprints etc etc, the results come out ok afterall......film is more resiliant than we sometimes give it credit for not that I would purposely handle it in an abusive manner

 

[joxby]

Well, I'm pretty gifted at spooling these days, but I do remember early on that spooling wet spirals was as good as guaranteeing failure, I only had one so I dried it with a hair dryer, prepared my stuff in the darkroom....tank, lids, scissors, film, spiral.....turned out the light and went about loading it.
Could I hellas get this film on the spiral, gawd, ages I was fannying about starting it, getting stuck, taking it off starting again.
Anyway, after about 10 mins of frustration, I threw the film in the tank unspooled and turned on the light.
Inspecting the spiral I realised it was all bent to hell and back, melted by the hair dryer, if I'd stood there a week the film would never have gone on.

So that's a cautionary tale of hair dryers and plastic spirals....

 

[Asha]

Well, I'm pretty gifted at spooling these days, but I do remember early on that spooling wet spirals was as good as guaranteeing failure, I only had one so I dried it with a hair dryer, prepared my stuff in the darkroom....tank, lids, scissors, film, spiral.....turned out the light and went about loading it.
Could I hellas get this film on the spiral, gawd, ages I was fannying about starting it, getting stuck, taking it off starting again.
Anyway, after about 10 mins of frustration, I threw the film in the tank unspooled and turned on the light.
Inspecting the spiral I realised it was all bent to hell and back, melted by the hair dryer, if I'd stood there a week the film would never have gone on.

So that's a cautionary tale of hair dryers and plastic spirals....

How did the film come out?
I have given up trying to spool before now and out of frustration simply thrown the loose film in the tank and deved it......suprisingly the results have not been too bad....maybe i've been lucky!

 

[joxby]

I threw it in the tank and put the lid on, when I realised the spiral was buggered I just left the film in the tank till I got another one, bar a few dints and creases, it came out ok..


ere.......I just read excaliburs copy/paste post in which he says he had a sagging spiral through drying with a hair dryer.....so it isn't just me, though I never thought we'd ever have anything in common besides a film camera fixation..

 

[timreeves]

I used to use a changing bag, now it's just in the bathroom, lights off, towel across the bottom of the door. I managed to get 3 rolls of 120 onto plastic reels in about 3 minutes and it was my first time spooling 120.

my spirals are a little bit greasy, which means if they get wet a quick blast on medium heat with the hairdrier whips all the water straight off. Not too sure how to make them greasy, mine came like that second hand

 

[joxby]

Its what they're made of, I think the greasy feeling ones have a higher nylon content than plain ole plastic ones, I always try to get the nylony spirals, they are definitely easier to load.