Hello there
I just developed two black and white film rolls. That was a painful experience, because of my bad choice of film:
👿 The Lucky SHD400 is too thin, curling on itself like crazy, slipping on the reel.
🫤 The Lomography earl grey 100 is a bit thicker, better catch on reel’s sides and locking ball.
I wish next rolls will be easier to feed on the reel, any advices ?
Until now nothing beats the Kikipan 320. But it’s not produced anymore.
Asking AI seems only to praise most expensive films, not sure if it is true or biased.
Also I tired asking on the mastodon and associated platform first with not much luck.
Hopefully lemmy is better suited for that kind of open question ?
Its been a looooong time since I developed my own film (which was also black and white), but from my experience, the plastic reels were always worse than the metal reels. I always used something like this and it worked very well. Little difficulty getting it on the reels in the pitch black dark.
I had to practice in daylight a couple of times with prior with developed (or scrap) film, but once I got the technique it was very easy to replicate in the dark.
Funny. I actually prefer the plastic reels. I feel like the metal ball bearings (not present in the only metallic reel I ever owned) do all of the hard work for me.
Maybe it’s just what I got used to?