Your film slitter

<p>What is your slitter for cutting 135 or 120 film into Minox or 16mm film?</p>

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Currently my collection of film slitters include<br>

a)The orginal Minox/Acmel film slitter<br>

b)a Jimmy Li roller slitter for Minox film<br>

c)A Jimmy Li roller slitter for 16mm +9.2mm<br>

d)A Jimmy Li knife block slitter for Minox film, with optional interchangeable knife block <br>

for slitting 16mm+9.2 film ( on order)</p>

<p>The Minox/Acmel slitter cost more than b) and c) combined, the Jimmy Li slitters are bargain.</p>

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The Jimmy Li roller slitter has several advantage over the Minox/Acmel film slitter: <br>

 

1)The roller cutter never gets dull, unlike Minox slitter, after long use, the three cutting blades become dull, you cannot replace the blades yourself, you need to buy factory knife blade assembly, which is hard to get.<br>

 

 

2) The film back or film emulsion never touch moving parts, hence less likely to cause scratches when cutting uncoated film(such as

Agfa Copex). <br>

 

3) With Minox slitter, you need to press hard on the knife assembly. You don't need to apply pressure on the rollers.

<p><a href="http://abdallah.hiof.no/photography/minox/filmslitter.jpg"><img src="http://abdallah.hiof.no/photography/minox/filmslitter.jpg" alt="Al Spoil filmslitter for Minox" width="960" /></a>My "Al Spoil" film slitter for 9.2mm Minox film.</p>

<p>Al Spoil slitter is indeed a simple and effective design for 8x11 film. If you want simultaneously 16mm and 9.2mm films from the same 35mm film cut, it is very hard to do with this type of design. With this type cutter, one strips of 16mm film from 35mm is common, I have yet to see a hand pull slitter offering 16mm+9.2mm</p>

<p>The Ai Spoiler has been sitting on my desk for over a year and the other day I slit my first films, which was surprisingly easy. Before going through the logistics of the operation, I didn't realise how easy it actually is. Having loaded the 35mm cassette with the requisite length of film, the only part of the operation requiring a changing bag was the slitting itself and inserting the two rolls into the film side of the Minox cassettes. The rest was done in daylight. However, I worry that the foam pressure plate of the slitter will accumulate enough debris or abrasive particles over time to cause scratches and am therefore looking into getting a roller type slitter instead.</p>

<p><a href="/photodb/user?user_id=2329842">Børre Ludvigsen,</a> if you buy roller type slitter, get the one with a crank instead of knob. With crank<br>

you can count how many turns easily</p>