Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Here are a few tips: Be sure you have cut the end of the film at a 90 degree angle. Then, be sure the film is on the reel at a 90 gegree angle to the core. Then, try not to get any crimps in the film. if you do, it is usely (for me) near death, and I may have to snip a few inches off to get rid of the crimp. But then i do not start the first picture at the very beginning, but wind off three times to be sure. So i have space to work with. Once you get it it is amazingly fast and sure. Jesse Dan Honemann wrote: > > Okay, fellow Hewes fans, > > Please send me any and all tips you have for loading these reels. I've > already mangled two rolls, and now I'm gun shy (never had any problems with > the plastic reels). > > The problem for me is getting tactile feedback on the loading in the dark: > the only way I know I've botched it (typically) is if it gets stuck, or if I > wind up running out of reel before all of the film is loaded. In both > cases, I find it impossible to recover. > > I've been practicing to the point where I can load my practice roll fairly > consistently in the light; in the dark, it's still a 50-50 proposition for > me, which isn't nearly good enough. I need to get to 100%. > > The only tip I know is to curve the film slightly between thumb and > forefinger of the right hand while turning the reel in the left. Any other > magical method I don't know about besides just doing this a thousand times > till I get more comfortable with it? > > Thanks, > Dan