Loading TMAX 120

[aaron_canipe]

<p>Loading my first roll of film went OK in my 500 C/M, but I just tried to load my second roll. I aligned the arrows up on the film with the red arrows on the spring loaded bar fine, but while I was feeding it through the other reel, I seemed to go past the yellow paper on the TMAX and onto the white portion slightly. </p>

<p>Is there a rather large leader on 120 film for this like with 35mm? Or did I expose some of my film by going onto the white paper and I'm screwed?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

[Ed_Ingold]

You are loading the film wrong!

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The film backing must go black-side up over the film platen, and under the little clip (turn the lock to raise the clip). The film does two reverse curves when loaded properly. I suggest you have someone show you, and get the "Hasselblad Manual" by Ernst Wildi at the first opportunity. Feed it through the takeup reel first THEN line up the arrow.

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There is a rather long leader (unlike 35mm film) to keep the film from getting exposed in the roll.

[aaron_canipe]

<p>No, I loaded it correctly.<br /> <br /> The black side <em>is</em> up and exposed and <em>under</em> the clip and is quite flat over the plane, but I'm wondering if I wound it up too much into the takeup spool at some point and accidentally exposed the film when I saw the white paper after the arrows. Sorry, I guess it's kind of hard to explain, but I hope it's clearer this time.</p>

[chauncey_walden]

<p>Here, watch these:<br>

<cite>www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQvr1b5upHE</cite><br>

<cite>www.youtube.com/watch?v=op6hDyMmkqA</cite></p>

[Ed_Ingold]

I'm curious which arrows you are seeing. The arrow to line up when loading points toward the edge of the film on the backing. There are also arrows parallel to the film which tell you which direction it should be moving. You line that up with a mark on the loading side of the insert and take up the slack with the takeup spool. The you replace the insert and wind the little crank until it stops (unless this is a really old back with a peep-hole. The backing can be any color. You're probably OK unless you see then end of the film coming off the feed spool - it's taped to the backing paper at the leading edge.

[ivan_shukster1]

<p>There is a long white portion with TMAX film leader. You will notice this if you have an old 12 magazine, it seems to go on for some lenght of time anyways. If you did screw up it would not be the entire roll and unless you say the number 1 I do not think that that is even a problem.</p>

[aaron_canipe]

<p>Chauncey: I went exactly by the second video. I'm talking about the arrows on the roll of film he has exactly when he has them lined up.</p>

<p>Edward: Yeah, I'm talking about the arrows on the backing when you first load the film up and pull it across the plane. But I think I took up too much of the film in takeup spool. I had to unravel it a little so the large arrow (pictured below, from a Flickr user).</p>

<p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2176/2341686736_025d807b1a.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="204" /></p>

<p>And since I think I took up too much of the film and went <em>past </em> that large arrow bar, the color of the backing changed (talking specifically about a roll of 120 Kodak TMAX) to white. I was just wondering if I happened to screw up some of my film since I took up too much.</p>

[aaron_canipe]

<p>Ivan: Thanks for your response. My frame counter is set at 1 with no problems. So you think everything is fine if I exposed some of the film with the white paper backing?</p>

[steve_mareno]

<p>Since the film is already in the camera, write down the exact way that you loaded it, shoot the roll, and see how it went. Everything may be all right, and everything may not be all right, but unless you are willing to sacrifice the roll that's in there (also an idea. Just run the film thru the camera, re spool it, and run it through a few more times. Like practicing to load a tank developer reel)) there's only one way to see how it went.</p>

<p>I love the little drawing.</p>