As I wrote in the last installment of this series the Alden 74 is my favorite of the different 35mm film bulk loaders that I have used. Fortunately when I bought my first example I began using it with my Nikon Reloadable Film Cassettes and Kodak Snap-Cap 135 Magazines. I was very impressed with it. If I had started with a Leica FILCA cassette I would probably have put the Alden 74 in my “mistaken purchases” box and continued using the Watson 100 for all of my bulk loading. Continue reading “Bulk Loading 35mm Film Part 3 – Modifying the Alden 74”
Category: Equipment
Light Leak?
I have been seeing this sort of thing, light struck areas at the bottom of the frame, intermittently on some of my negatives for some time now. Checking through my notes, I find that it is not correlated with any camera, film stock, bulk loaded or factory cassettes, developing tank, etc. The only constant is that if it appears on any frame of a roll of negatives it appears on a number of the other frames, at least to some extent. The above is a frame from a bulk loaded 24-exposure roll of HP5 Plus in a Snap-Cap cassette, shot with a Nikon F6 and developed with Rodinal (1+50). The last roll of film I shot with that camera, the last roll of film I loaded in that cassette, and the last time I followed that developing regimen showed no such issues. So what went wrong this time? Continue reading “Light Leak?”
Mere Film Photography 