Loading film upside down?

GarageBoy · Sep 18, 2015

Seriously? I can't honestly think of any camera that loads 35 mm film right side up. If it fits, it's correct. Maybe the contaflex tlr or the rollei sl2000/3003 do things differently

Truzi · Sep 19, 2015

I don't think you can put a 35mm cartridge in the wrong way. The orientation of the printed label does not matter at all. It might help us to know what your 35mm camera is.

The part where the film comes out of the cartridge should lie parallel to (or in-line with) the area the film will go across. This is what Sirius has told you.

Maybe a video will help...
I'm assuming your camera accepts the 35mm film cartridge on the left side. In this video, just note how the cartridge looks when it is in the camera - the part of the cartridge where the film comes out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjCfcTFP50E

If your camera accepts the cartridge on the right side, use this for reference (he loads around 1:45 into the video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHw14kLc6bs

mweintraub · Sep 20, 2015

Without photos, we can't tell what they are going.

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John Koehrer · Sep 20, 2015

Sirius Glass said:
The OP means the silk screen printing on the canister. How about giving the OP a break and answer his question?

Yes the printing on the canister [cassette] will appear upside down in most cameras.

+1

Waaah!

Seems like some are just picking nits to rationalize their answers. To make an attempt to explain this tendency think of it this way.
"I just can't be wrong or misunderstood my language skills are so f***ing wonderful".

BTW when the film is loaded right, the sticky label will be upside down And the long edge of the film will be towards the bottom edge of the film chamber.

AgX · Sep 21, 2015

BradS said:
Oh, wait...I see this is in the 35mm section...I cannot think of anyway that 35mm could be "upside down". except that some cameras have the film cartridge on once side of the camera and others have it on the other side...but, it should not matter either way.

It would matter in that way the frame numbering figures will then be at top of the frame and not at its base, and of course they then are upside down related to the image orientation.

But that should not matter as long one does not compare it to a "classical orientated" film on a light table or so.
The numbering itself would be right in any case.

The cameras that take-up film the other way that come to my mind at the moment all have as special feature a lighttight take-up compartment to save the exposed film in case of accidentally opening the film chamber.
You win something, you loose something...

Xmas · Sep 21, 2015

If the OP is missing a take up spool where it is removable he might be confused. They are normally AWOL in Contax IIa and II and sometimes in Exaktas...

And there may be more exotic examples.

RobC · Sep 21, 2015

John Koehrer said:
+1

Waaah!

Seems like some are just picking nits to rationalize their answers. To make an attempt to explain this tendency think of it this way.
"I just can't be wrong or misunderstood my language skills are so f***ing wonderful".

BTW when the film is loaded right, the sticky label will be upside down And the long edge of the film will be towards the bottom edge of the film chamber.

Only if the particular camera has the film loading chamber on the left when looking at the open back.

Xmas · Sep 21, 2015

RobC said:
Only if the particular camera has the film loading chamber on the left when looking at the open back.

Or is a Barnack... Or clone.

RalphLambrecht · Sep 21, 2015

Swordman said:
Hi folks,

I'm primarily a digital photographer, so forgive my stupid question!

I just noticed the sticker on my fuji velvia film is upside down when loading the film the normal way (i.e. the long bit of the film at the bottom. The colour of the film is also different on either side, so it got me a little worried...am I loading the film upside down? Is the film light sensitive on both sides, or just one?

Hope to hear from you soon

film is only light sensitive on the matte emulsion side.

RobC · Sep 21, 2015

Xmas said:
Or is a Barnack... Or clone.

OP should get a Rollei 35

1L6E6VHF · Sep 21, 2015

GarageBoy said:
Seriously? I can't honestly think of any camera that loads 35 mm film right side up. If it fits, it's correct. Maybe the contaflex tlr or the rollei sl2000/3003 do things differently

The Argus C3 must be the most abundant example.

I've used others, though memory of which others run the film right-to-left escapes me at this moment.

It was of little consequence. Print shooters would pull the prints from the envelope, and right them without a thought. Slide shooters who shot portrait as well as landscape had to right each slide anyway. I guess a slide shooter who shot only landscape may have had an embarrassing incident after switching from a "cassette left" camera to a "cassette right" model (or vice versa)

RobC · Sep 21, 2015

its upside down so it matches the orientation of the image on film

AgX · Sep 21, 2015

GarageBoy said:
Seriously? I can't honestly think of any camera that loads 35 mm film right side up. If it fits, it's correct.

Those cameras are all around in Germany.

Jim Jones · Sep 21, 2015

RalphLambrecht said:
film is only light sensitive on the matte emulsion side.

I've seen even professional photographers load sheet film wrong and shoot through the base. It cuts exposure down a stop or so, but often works well enough.

Loading film upside down?

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