Vladamir30 wrote:
John Bartley said:

I put in the film holder, pulled out the dark

slide, snapped the picture and went to put the dark slide back in - NO
GO!! Aaarrrg!


You presumably loaded the film in the rails upon which the dark slide moves
up and down rather than below those rails which is where the film is
supposed to go. This used to happen to me all the time because it's very
easy to do and is extremely frustrating. Fortunately there is an easy way to
prevent it.

In daylight pull the darkslide of an empty holder up a couple inches. Look
at the interior of the holder, at the base where the flap is. It will be
very obvious that there are rails upon which the darkslide slides up and
down and that the film is supposed to go under the bottom of the two rails.
The bottom rail on each side of the holder has a sharp corner (at least all
of mine do, some new, some ancient). When you're actually loading film,
after you've got the film in the holder just rub your finger in the area
where those two corners are located and see if you can feel the corners with
your finger. If you can then the film is loaded properly. If you can't what
you will feel instead is the film resting on top of the corner. If that's
the case then you have the film in the dark slide rails and you need to
remove it and start over (no, touching the film with your finger won't
create a smudge or otherwise hurt the film). This is one of those things
that takes five minutes to describe in writing and maybe five seconds max to
actually do but hopefully this is clear.

When I load sheet film, I have a much easier way of determining if I
accidently loaded the film in the darkslide slot: Before even trying to
reinsert the dark slide, I flip the bottom flap into the position it will
need to go. If it does not go in flush with the rest of the holder when
pressing very gently, I know already that I goofed and just reload the
sheet. Forcing the darkslide in will at least scratch the film, and who
needs that!

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