I know this reply is years late...but I will respond in case any Googlers find it like I did.
I just got my Great Wall camera and figured out the issue. Luckily, I had Kodak, Ilford and Fuji film lying around. My Kodak would not fit. It is less than a mm larger than the spool that was in the camera when I bought it. I tired the Ilford too...no luck. I looked at the spool that was in the camera when i got it, which loads perfectly. It says "Fujifilm EZ load". I grabbes a new roll of fuju color 120 film, opened it and saw the same emboss on the spool. I tried to load it into the GW and Voila! It worked!
So I guess from now on I can only use Fujifilm in this cam. My guess is that this camera was made when spools were metal. The metal spools were a bit thinner i think, on the top and bottom and now only fuji fits.
Great Wall DF-4: Properly Loading Film?
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I know this reply is years late...but I will respond in case any Googlers find it like I did.
I just got my Great Wall camera and figured out the issue. Luckily, I had Kodak, Ilford and Fuji film lying around. My Kodak would not fit. It is less than a mm larger than the spool that was in the camera when I bought it. I tired the Ilford too...no luck. I looked at the spool that was in the camera when i got it, which loads perfectly. It says "Fujifilm EZ load". I grabbes a new roll of fuju color 120 film, opened it and saw the same emboss on the spool. I tried to load it into the GW and Voila! It worked!
So I guess from now on I can only use Fujifilm in this cam. My guess is that this camera was made when spools were metal. The metal spools were a bit thinner i think, on the top and bottom and now only fuji fits.