Originally posted by Alex645 Agreed but some cameras auto rewind the film entirely or like the Canon Rebel series, will shoot backwards and completely put the film into the canister after the last shot.
This is Pentax Forums not Canon Forums. Why anyone would be using a film Rebel these days is pretty mystifying. They were junk cameras in the 1980s and I strongly doubt they have aged well since then.
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The main reason I rewind the film fully is to ensure that that roll won't be mistaken for a fresh roll and reloaded. Yes, anyone paying attention will note the leader tongue (on manual advancing cameras) will be curled in the opposite direction, but there is confidence that a canister with no film sticking out has been shot and exposed.
I avoid all this by shooting 120 medium format!
I can't speak to poor organizational skills regarding keeping exposed vs unexposed film seperate. I always put a crease in the tongue as it came out, and then put the exposed stuff in a different pocket from unused.
With cameras that want to rewind fully, just pop the back open when you hear the motor speed up, indicating it is no longer pulling the take-up spool in reverse.
I didn't shoot much 35mm B&W after I got my 6x7 and I shot less of each after I bought my Tachihara. It doesn't matter what format you are shooting, if you don't have some sort of plan in place for keeping exposed film seperate from unexposed, you will at some point run into problems.
I've seen people start loading exposed 120 film, actually have it in the camera and pulling the paper across the camera before it twigs on them that they are having a brain fart. On occassion I was saved from double exposing sheet film by the fact my film holder management was solid. It's fairly easy to forget to flip the dark slide over before putting it back into the holder. It's better to have a seperate compartment in your bag for used holders.
If you don't practice good film management, no matter what format you are shooting, it will come back to bite you at some point.
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Originally posted by ChrisPlatt Opening the cartridge to the remove exposed film is always the preferred method.
Every trip through the cassette felt light-trap is another chance to scratch your film.
This is a problem particular but not exclusive to reusable cartridges used for bulk loading.
However it can occur with single use factory-loaded cartridges.
Years ago I ruined several rolls with horizontal scratches that ran the entire length of the roll.
They were impossible to fully hide using standard negative retouching methods of the time.
Chris
This is easily mitigated by keeping the inside of the camera clean, not opening the film can until you need the film and returning the film to the can immediately upon taking it out if the camera.
In the mini lab industry, film was always pulled out of the cannisters by the film processor. I was in that end of the business for 15 years and can assure you that scratches from cassettes was so rare as to be statistically non existent.
If you ruined several rolls pulling film out of the cans for processing, your problem was not with the cassettes, it was really bad housekeeping on your part. Film is kind of delicate, we need to pay more than lipservice to cleanliness of the film paths.
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Originally posted by Xmas Film extractors work ok to?
If you can get a roll of extractor tape from a lab supplier that is the best.
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