Loading Film in 35mm Camera

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Load the film wrong and miss a whole role of quality photos! Learn how to load film in a 35mm camera correctly in this free instructional video for beginning photographers.

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Loading Film in 35mm Camera
Hi, I’m Scott Vallance on behalf of Expert Village.com. We are going to do a video clip today about loading film in a 35mm camera. All cameras are a little bit different. Most of them have the release for the back over on the slide take up spool. Just open the spool, it has a lever in the middle, and then pull it up and the back should spring open. At this point, hold it upside down; blow in it gently to get any extra dust out of there. If you have one of those manual blowers it works real well. Take your film out of the canister that holds it. It has a leader on it. There is a sprocket over on the left hand side of your camera, right hand side as you look at it. Stick the leader into the little slot, about a ¼ inch, advance your film advance lever, fold your film across, make sure that this spot that holds are lined up with the spot that is on the gear drive, fold your film across, drop into the slot, turn your film take up wind lever down on it, close the back, leave the little lever up on your film wind lever and then advance it a couple of times and watch and make sure that the little handle turns. If it does not turn, your film did not load correctly. Shoot a couple frames, tighten that up, set it down and you are ready to go shoot.

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Expert: Scott Vallance is the owner of VIP Photographic.com. He graduated from Brooks Institute of Photography. Read More