Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My daughter is taking her first "real" (meaning I'm not teaching her) photography course in high school this semester. She uses my darkroom, including my reels which are stainless steel. She was days in the process of learning how to load them. She practiced in the light looking at her hands. In the light with her eyes closed. In the dark. And finally with real film ready to be processed. It was grueling for me standing by her in the darkroom as she loaded her first roll...it seemed to take forever. But she got it. Several days later she came home, barreled through the front door and hollered to me in my office, "Moooooooooooooom, why didn't you TELL me they make PLASTIC reels that are really easy to load?" My gig was up. I sorta snickered to myself. She was not amused. I had to learn the hard way...passing it on seemed the least I could do. Lea - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arie" <ariek@pacbell.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 5:53 PM Subject: [Leica] film loading > Ive been following the thread about film loading.....left hand/right hand, > stainless/plastic etc. The one thing I do to all my stainless reels, 35 & > 120, is to remove those damn clips. I learned this years ago at a studio I > used to work for. Since then Ive never had a problem with loading, except > when I was still fuzzy from the night before (was that dev. or a bloody mary > that just got poured into the tank?) > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html