Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]BD makes an excellent point (!) about economy vs The Possibility of a Scratch: when someone else is paying (on those rare occasions when someone wants to fund my fun), I buy factory film for the sake of eliminating (or really, reducing) that potential source of trouble. I have reused cassettes many times, probably, like Martin in his exhaustive (in the best sense) description, I would not recommend what I do as opposed to what I say. I use a dark closet to load my Lloyd type bulk loader, then load cassettes in subdued room light. I never allow myself to take a prize winning photo as the last exposure on a roll. Yeah, right. Usually I shoot for fun, always chasing that elusive prize winner (I did win a 1st prize this summer in a juried show), and so I shoot away and film is cheap. The occasions when I have had the perfect picture ruined by a scratch or other bulk-loading failure are I think far exceeded by failures of imperfect focus or exposure, or processing problems, or my own printing limitations. Seems kind of funny, after all this, with discussing saving a buck a roll or thereabouts on film to run through our thousand-dollar cameras to capture light coming through our thousand dollar lenses. Somehow, it makes sense to me. bill h - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html