How to roll 120 Film For Developing
How to EASILY Load a Roll of 120 Film for Developing in a Paterson Tank.
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hey guys okay so what I'm gonna do here
I'm gonna go over how to load a roll of
120 film which is what I've got in my
hand here
it's called roll film it's considered
medium format it can be taken in by
different cameras and like a 6 by 9 6 by
I think 14 like for a panoramic camera 6
by 7 6 by 6 which is obviously a square
and 6 by 4 point 5 which is commonly
referred to as 645 that's the ones that
I'm aware of anyway it's a as you can
see it's a good size roll film this
particular roll kind of got messed up
because the I dropped my beloved camera
follow my voice land or betsa to like
kind of but I did more than drop it okay
it flew off of the trunk of my car I put
it on the trunk forgot it was there I
was getting my my bicycle off the off of
the rack and that Voigtlander you know
when I opened up the trunk it uh it took
a pretty nasty fall easily 6 feet onto
the concrete so I sent it back to Durgin
Durgan creakle was a wonderful man that
that sells these cameras and refurbishes
mcl lays them on ebay I've bought a
couple of cameras from him he's he's
really good ok so back to this as you
can see here it says exposed right they
come wrapped like this new
and open this one is to kind of show you
what it looked like before it's exposed
these are both roles of port drop this
one obviously has not been exposed
it doesn't say not exposed but it's just
you know it's yellow though the other
label showing and once you reach the end
of the spool it's not like 35-millimeter
where you rewind it back into this bowl
it just goes from one side of the camera
picture and on and then it's wound into
the other side
so therefore this you know once it's
exposed this is what its gonna look like
okay so I've got here Patterson tank
okay this is the top this is the center
spool that I'll show you how what that
does to keep the tank light tight and
this is the spoke to take-up spool now
these things are pretty cool if you put
them together like this you can see
they're the proper width for a
35-millimeter if you take them apart
like that spread them out a little bit
and kind of find the fun notch there you
go now it's set up for 120 film same
spool of same real same take-up reel
this is a spool right here okay so you
put this pool in the middle goes inside
be a tank on top of the you know the
film would be weld onto here and you can
see its got like grooves and it's got
these these two ball bearings and I'm
gonna show you exactly how to how to do
that properly but you notice these two
ball bearings here they kind of
facilitate the ratcheting action you get
to film what you do first you you line
up these two notches here make sure
these are in you know together even you
roll the film to here and then you just
start this ratcheting action and you
know and then eventually it makes its
way onto there
it goes inside here and if you notice
this center tube there lines up with
this funnel with these part of the
funnel right here inside the tank when
it goes in what happens is these two
guys kind of come together inside okay
then you close that till it clicks and
it's like tight so you can pour your
chemicals inside there right
while you are in regular you know room
light day light what have you but but
but obviously since the film cannot be
exposed to light otherwise it'll be
ruined you've got to do all of this
inside this this is a changing bag dark
bag film bag whatever you want to call
it but yeah arms going here
well
we put your arms in there right knock
this stuff over and you know you've got
all your stuff inside here see there's a
there's a dual zipper system you see
others two zippers there there's an
inner bag you put your stuff in there
zip it and then there's an the outer
zipper just to ensure that it's
completely light tight and then your
arms going through here and there's
elastic gear to keep light from leaking
and where your arms are going in so
anyway it takes a little practice
especially with the 120 film 35
millimeters a little bit easier but in
order to get all this stuff in there I'm
gonna show you how it works this role
was ruined when my camera took a flight
so I'm I have the unique opportunity
because I'll never waste film like that
so I got the unique opportunity to show
you guys how to how this works in
daylight
okay so here it is alright so in again
remember this is all happening inside
the changing bag
I think it's called alright so you kind
of have to commit to memory muscle
memory all this stuff works well the
pieces are and I bet I can show you some
tips okay first off unless you're gonna
take another roll don't ever take this
out of your camera they'll never take
this roll out of your camera and the
reason I say that is because sometimes
it's uh it might loosen up before you
get a chance to put that label on there
the sticky label that kind of holds it
in place and that actually happened to
me not very recently where I didn't you
know after exposing the roll I didn't
put the label on there in the in the
film was kind of like you know it was
wild on there kind of loosely okay now
just to show you a little bit you know
about this stuff here okay this is a you
know just a backing paper and as you're
gonna see
there's the film okay
they used together films is uh you do
some winding as you look through the you
know the camera or definitely there's so
many different kinds of cameras it's
done different ways but what happens
first is you go past this paper and then
and then you'll at some point get to
where the actual film is alright so what
I do in the in that changing bag I'll
get rid of this okay cuz this just kind
of gets in the way and sometimes it can
you know mess up your get caught up in
your spool so once I feel that film is
in there in the dark and in the changing
bag I tear this away don't eat it
alright and furthermore I'll take this
and you're you're good for the first uh
first few inches of the roll you're not
gonna hurt anything but I'll do that and
this has helped tremendously okay if you
can kind of take that severe curve out
of that part of it then that's that'll
help you a lot
so now you see how it's sitting straight
now versus how curly it was when it's
bat curly it's really hard to do
anything with it and load it up onto the
reel okay but you know take care to not
you know do any more than about this or
maybe this much more okay may save like
the first five or six inches I would try
to avoid executor touching that so
anyway I rolled it back lined up the the
two notches there see that and oh this
is so easier to daylight okay and then
you want what you want to do is you want
to get past these this little ball
bearing let me
okay you see the little ball bearings
there I guess you can see that right
there and there's one on each side line
up these two notches make sure they're
in the same position and fill them in
there till it hits the notches okay and
now it's just simply a matter of you
know starting the ratchet action you see
as you ratchet see like I show you this
way it's starting to you know go into
the take-up spool okay and it happens
pretty quickly 120 film isn't that long
you see this is the end already okay so
taking care not to touch any of this
what I do here once you filled it
there's nothing left of the film itself
see where these two are kind of taped
together just take that apart and again
you're good on this side here the last
frame is probably right around there
somewhere and then you want to take this
off if you don't want to take messing up
your chemicals they take there and
beyond that you just finish and one
thing I mentioned too when you're doing
the ratcheting try to keep your thumbs
just below the ratchet because they'll
you know that'll keep them from jumping
jumping over the little notch there okay
so that's basically it
the filament wound goes in the tank and
the Patterson tank okay and just you
know there's this is a pretty good
system this is the system three I think
it's called you can actually have a
second roll a second 120 roll or you can
have I believe I believe we can do three
thirty-five millimeter rolls one 120 and
135 or you can do to 120 rolls so it's a
good system
if you you know if you take a lot of
Philip photos like I do alright it goes
in there this guy the funnel goes on top
always make sure that this is you know
this is like this okay you don't want to
have it like you know let that okay cuz
then you're gonna lose your light
tightness you want to always make sure
that the tube is up top there and that
will that will marry up with it the
funnel will click it and just for as a
safeguard I put the top on and the top
is more to keep the chemicals from the
spilling out but you know if you just
want to be extra safe go ahead and put
the top on but you're okay cuz this is
completely like tight as long as you
remember two things those are the two
inside and the funnel making sure it
clicks once you've done that you're 100%
light-tight you're ready to go okay
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