Re: Dealing with reloading in daylight

["Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On 24 Jul 97 at 13:21, Wayde Allen wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Willem-Jan Markerink wrote:
> 
> > Mmm....the problem is that you now need to respool the 135-36 film,
> > cut it in half and attach a leader to both halves. Buying bulk 35mm
> > spools starts making sense then....:-))
> > Wonder how feasible this is with 70mm....those have to be cut anyway.
> 
> It shouldn't really be necessary to respool the film!  You'd just need to
> pull the existing leader out of the cartrige a bit, cut off the end to
> make this more or less square, and tape your new leader in place.  It
> should then be easy to wind the new leader back into the cartridge until
> you've got just enough sticking out to load the camera.  This would all be
> done in the dark of course.
> 
> Actually, I've often wondered why this film isn't already prepackaged with
> an opaque leader?

Note that the old Kodak Infrared film Andy spoke about was a 135-20 
configuration, with a very long dummy leader AFAIK. This was one of 
the first Kodak IR films, not nearly as sensitive as the current one, 
and not called High Speed either! 
This difference in both speed and spectral sensitivity makes one wonder 
whether replacing only 20cm will do the trick....
Considering that one needs to add more dummy length, it makes sense 
to cut the film in half, and probably end up with about 20 frames on 
each half....you gain the entire length of the original leader!



- -- 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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