If I understand correctly, you say that you do not open the cassette but pull the film out for development. Each time the film passes through the velvet light trap there is a chance of scratching. You need to open the cassettes to extract the film for development.
I have never levered off the end of a cassette and have yet to have the light trap to scratch the film.
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pentaxuser
You are absolutely right Jerry but what I was trying to say was that if the outwind or rewind( both unavoidable) creates the problem as it did in your case then levering off the cassette end won't solve the problem. The scratch has already occurred
pentaxuser
Jerry there are also cassettes called Shirley Wellard( is that a woman or the two male inventors?which are very well engineered and employ the same labyrinthine principle so no possibility of scratches as there is no felt light trap. In all my years of looking on e-bay for items photographic I have seen one once only. I think it sold for about £10 so say $16. On the basis of a lifetimes' use then still good value if you bulk roll. The drawback from what I read on the Roger Hicks/ Frances Schultz website is that the cassette compartment in modern cameras with auto most things such as wind and rewind and AF is slightly too small.
Older manual Nikons, Minoltas, Pentax etc are probably OK. Pity
pentaxuser
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