Loading steel reels with 35mm film for home development

Tips from pro photographer Rob Skeoch on loading 35mm film onto steel reels.
Steel reels are tricky to load the fist few times, but once you get the hang of it, it's easy to do and one of the skills needed to develop 35mm film yourself. A few tips might shorten the learning curve, and it's best to practice with a dud roll a few times in the light, and then in the darkroom, before you start processing those once-in-a-lifetime landscape photos.
Rob Skeoch is a career photographer, working for five newpapers and wire services before joining the team at Major League Baseball for 17 seasons and the NFL for 14 seasons. Then he was a national manager for the camera group at Sony North America before going back to shooting. Now he shoots for gallery shows around the world, mostly portraits and street work.
For 35mm shooting he uses a Nikon F3 and a couple M-mount Leica cameras and shoots mostly Ilford HP5+ film.
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