100' Camera Spools and Cans Help

Post by **gianni1** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:21 am

I need 100 foot camera spools and cans for some 400' stock (1R single perf) I just got... shall I ask a local lab (in the UK) or go through ebay?

Also what's the procedure for taking it off the 400 spool and loading it onto the 100 spool.

Shall I use a changing bag, or is a darkroom with winders better?

Gianni 8)

Post by **Dr_Strangelove** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 1:08 am

Ive respooled A-wind to B-wind 16mm film. I did this in a window free bathroom in the middle of the night to make sure no light would ruin the film. The only tools I used were a couple of pencils and some tape and it worked out fine. Basically its only time consuming and frustrating but once you get a hang of it, the frustration will decline...

Good luck.

Post by **gianni1** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 1:26 am

Ah, thanks...after searching for "a wind" "b wind" I found this thread which pointed to this page on Kodak's site with clear illustration and explanation... Still, unless I do it myself, I don't really get it. I'll try it with some 8mm KII spools and cans

Gianni

Post by **richard p. t.** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:31 am

Best place to get 100' daylight spools is a local lab if you have one.
The 400' film is on a core of course, so to use wind arms in the dark the
usual proceedure would be to put the 400' core of film on a so called split reel. If you don't know what that is, you dont have one.
To do it without split reels should be possible, but you have to be very careful. Best if you have someone else in the dark with you. Personally I suggest keeping the 400' of film flat on the bench. The other person (or yourself) can just concentrate on keeping the film from unwinding everywhere. If the film sat on an old turn table (record player) that might be good in helping it rotate freely. Then take up onto a 100' using a winder (so you would have to have a twist of 90 degrees in the film as the film moves from being horizontal on the bench to vertical on the wind arm). Then, once you have wound off all the film you want to do, you have to re-wind the film you have on the 100' spool so that it is 'head out' the same as it was on the core.
Cheers,
RT

Website · Post by **BigBeaner** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:08 am

Local lab but if you need a few and want to set something up, I got a lot just laying around.

Post by **bakanosaru** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:45 am

Your local lab probably has a darkroom with rewinds and split reels, that they might let you use if you ask nicely.

I tried getting daylight spools from labs in my area a while ago but had no luck, got mine off the local auction site (they are on ebay but expensive).

Post by **studiocarter** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:50 am

ha ha, If you shot film regularly you would already have lots of them laying around! :twisted:

Michael

Post by **Dr_Strangelove** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:07 am

gianni1 wrote:Ah, thanks...after searching for "a wind" "b wind" I found this thread which pointed to this page on Kodak's site with clear illustration and explanation... Still, unless I do it myself, I don't really get it. I'll try it with some 8mm KII spools and cans

Gianni

If Im not mistaken, you would have to respool the film twice in order to keep the original wind.

/Jan