How does a bulk film roll end?

[Carriage]

I've been working my way through my first bulk roll and I think I'm perhaps getting near the end of it. I was wondering if the end was attached to the spool it came on so I know when I'm out of film or will the loader just stop clicking and I'll have likely rolled the end of the film into the cassette necessitating reloading the last casette in a dark bag or buying a leader retriever?

 

[MattKing]

You will feel and hear it release from the central core. Just stop winding there, and you will have leader protruding from the cassette.

 

[Ian Grant]

Matt's right you'll feel and hear the tension cease, it's very apparent, quite hard to moss

Ian

 

[MattKing]

Yours was a good question - almost existential in its scope .

You could have started the thread in the Ethics and Philosophy sub-forum, and the title at least would have fit right in.

 

[Carriage]

Thanks guys

 

[frank]

It ends suddenly and abruptly.

 

[summicron1]

I've been working my way through my first bulk roll and I think I'm perhaps getting near the end of it. I was wondering if the end was attached to the spool it came on so I know when I'm out of film or will the loader just stop clicking and I'll have likely rolled the end of the film into the cassette necessitating reloading the last casette in a dark bag or buying a leader retriever?

towards the end you will notice the loader is lighter and the film has a smaller curl. At that point, wind a titch more carefully and when the frame counter on the loader stops clicking, stop winding and you should have some leader poking out.

Of course, you may also be on frame 6, which means ur outa luck on that roll. oh well.

 

[Gerald C Koch]

Some bulk loads are coreless which should have been noticeable when loaded into the loader. My bulk load of Arista (Ilford Pan F Plus) had no core. Even when there is a core the film may not be attached to it with tape. So there may be no tension when the end of the roll is reached. It pays to feel around as you are loading the loader. You can still check this.

 

[Mick Fagan]

If you have a 30m bulk roll, then you should get approximately 18, 36 frame rolls out of it, and, depending upon how much film you pull out to affix to the core, you should end up with 1 roll of approximately 18 frames.

I have 5 bulk loaders, with one currently empty, plus I have squillions of bulk film cores in my darkroom. Depending upon where in Melbourne you are at, you could pop over and check things out.

Mick.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

How does a bulk film roll end?

In the rain. Alone.

 

[Steve Goldstein]

How does it end?

Not with a bang but a whimper.

 

[Ricardo Miranda]

Some bulk loads are coreless which should have been noticeable when loaded into the loader. My bulk load of Arista (Ilford Pan F Plus) had no core. Even when there is a core the film may not be attached to it with tape. So there may be no tension when the end of the roll is reached. It pays to feel around as you are loading the loader. You can still check this.

That must have been a very old Arista.

All my Kentmere and Ilford bulk films have a 1" core.
Foma uses a 2" core.

 

[mshchem]

I haven't bought a bulk roll in 25 years do they still come 8n metal cans?

 

[MattKing]

I haven't bought a bulk roll in 25 years do they still come 8n metal cans?

Kodak does.
Ilford doesn't.
I don't know about the rest.

 

[baachitraka]

Thank God it ends.

Simulating the scractes...

------------------- _________ ------ ______
____________ ____________ _________ ____________

Evil of bulk loading.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

It ends suddenly and abruptly.

This is exactly word by word how it ends on me!

 

[gone]

Badly.

 

[paul ron]

says THE END!

now roll the credits n fade to black.

 

[Eric Rose]

"My only friend, the End"

 

[canuhead]

alone. in the dark. unrequited.

 

[wy2l]

How does a bulk film roll start?

 

[paul ron]

How does a bulk film roll start?

the lion roars?

 

[Arklatexian]

How does a bulk film roll end?

In the rain. Alone.

"Not with a BANG, but with a whimper." Sorry folks, I just could not resist. At least that is how most that I have used ended.........Regard!

 

[Sirius Glass]

With only a spool left