Razivot 400' bulk loader

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Bronson Dugnutt said:
bulk film vending machine.
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Yeah, sure. One in Tokyo, one each in New York and Los Angeles, one in London. Paris? Rome? Probably not enough market there for the investment...
 

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A man can dream... The idea of moving the confectioning to the point of sale is a pretty wild one but it kinda works for fountain drinks, why not film
 

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Yea, I was looking at this loader a while ago and the price is crazy considering spooling off 100 ft is not that difficult for the semi-competent. The Flux35 is interesting at that price point. I wonder if Midwest film uses their bulk loader for the rolls they sell...I would go with the Reflx Lab for commercial applications...having bulk loaded for past 20 years I can say that one can never get 36 frames by counting how many times you turn the knob...alwys a little more or less.
 

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Saganich said:
one can never get 36 frames by counting how many times you turn the knob...alwys a little more or less.
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The Watson/Western type loaders with a clicker do a bit better; it's driven by the sprockets, so one click per frame is pretty reliable if you actually get the film on the teeth. Of course, you have to allow a few extra clicks for the exposed tail and the leader -- commercial films have frames 0 and 00 before 1 (which is why many half frame cameras can get close to 80 frames on a roll). When I load in my clicking loaders, I allow 38 clicks and then leave some leader out.
 

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Does anyone here have experience with the Flux35? It looks a little flimsy in the photos, but that's totally subjective and possibly totally wrong.
 

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I use a movie film winder and 100' spools to spool down 400' rolls when I do it. It only takes a maybe ten? minutes that way to disperse the entire 400'. Super quick. Then I put 3 in the freezer and one in the Watson bulk loader I have. Never tried the Bobinquick but I have some others as well. I suppose if I felt like wasting $900 I would buy that contraption, but that is a lot of cheddar...
 
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Well I am not that reckless with money to get in to e6 chemicals..
And yes the idea is to shoot more film.
Or to maybe not have to buy for a while..
 
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Yep but you have to do it 4 times.
 
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Bronson Dugnutt said:
Someone should really slap together a bulk film vending machine.

Maybe for a few extra credits it would even confection it to your preferred format.
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Don’t give me crazy ideas.
 
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Have not had a problem with counting and bobbin quick.
 
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