Friday Tip - 3 Things You Should Do When Loading a 35mm Camera!

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Today's Friday Tip is all about the three things you should do when loading a 35mm camera. Get these three right and you'll be off to make great photographs!
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[@photomaster1]

Thanks for the tip, for telling people to take the time do start things right!!!

[@raymondtan2415]

I would firstly push the rewind knob down to lock the cartridge in place before attempting to load the film leader into the take-up spool. That way the cartridge can't unexpectedly pop out mid loading.

[@user-qm8sx8ne8g]

It all seem so obvious but the number of times I see posts on forums from newcomers to film complaining about blank film suggests that at least some do not do these checks Thanks John

[@PictorialPlanet]

Cheers my friend!

[@paularellano2962]

AND READ YOUR MANUAL ! ( Good tips as always John )

[@zhengfan9170]

usually i would rewind a bit more so perhaps i can cheese one more frame ;)) but that's also risky as i might accidentally pull the film off from the sprocket

[@kalicond]

Pentax MX🔥

[@PictorialPlanet]

Yay!

[@jamescopley8425]

While the rewind knob rotating is normally a solid indicator, it does not rotate when advancing on every camera. Not sure which other cameras but this worried me when I first shot my Praktica MTL5B, and it turned out fine. I opened the back after advancing the first frame and saw it had wound on - wasted a frame but had to make sure!

[@PictorialPlanet]

Fascinating! One would think that the rewind knob would have to rotate because it's 'attached' to the film, to rewind it. Thank you for your comment.

[@jamescopley8425]

@@PictorialPlanet Possible its threaded only one way? It works fine to wind the film back into the cassette

[@siddharghyamukherjee987]

Something happened to my MX, the film leader is coming off from the winder spool slit while winding! 😢

[@PictorialPlanet]

☹️

[@raybeaumont7670]

Cheers John. Happy shooting.