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How are you openning 35mm cassettes ?
Hi guys
I have just started processing some 35mm film after more than 12 years processing 5x4 sheets. Over the intervening 12 years I have managed to loose the bottle opener that I had used to open 35mm cassettes. So I am looking for ideas on how you successfully open 35mm film cassettes ? Martin |
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I use a small bottle opener.
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Like Alex I use a small bottle opener
Richard
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I have the Ilford film opener I have had for years and years ,and if I lost it I would buy another .my kit is A- Ilford film retrieval tool ,B- Ilford film opener and C- my mums scissors that she owned most of her life ,and when you get used to using the same things over and over again if I lost one of them ,i think it would put a bummer on the rest of the day at lest .
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Martin,
I am not sure why you want to open them, I never do. If the film leader if being wound back fully in some cameras alow you to stop this via a function. Otherwise use a film leader retrival device such as Iford's, there are others that may be cheaper. I have Ilford's but also have an indenpent one - just as good. Neil.
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I was going to say that I never bother opening cassettes as I have never had any need to do it but I need to qualify this by saying that I use a film leader retriever instead. I find this more versatile in that I can use it to retrieve a leader from a mid-roll rewound cassette on those occasions I have changed films and then changed back.
The other big advantage for me is that I am left with a range of usable DX coded cassettes for bulk loading which has been very useful in my point and shoot MjuII where DX coding is needed But, yes, the old fashioned bottle opener seems to fit the end of a cassette fine Mike |
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I use a film retriever also. I have about 3 different makes but the best one is an old Jessops one which never fails me.
David |
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Swiss Army knife with the tin-opener blade for me.
Mind you, it's been so long since i used 35mm film that it's probably been lost by now. Mike |
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Really hard photographers use their teeth
Seriously, I have the Ilford tool but a bottle opener does just the same.
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I have opened thousands of 35mm film cassettes in commercial labs, I just force my thumb between the light trap and prise them apart, the older uncrimped Ilford cassettes by banging the exposed spool end on the bench forcing the cap off.
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