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 ?

    • Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌@lemmy.zipOP
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      3 days ago

      Yes I must insist, because I’ve bought a few rolls of those cheap films, I won’t waste them.

      Like @MurrayL said I will try a few tricks to make it easier, I already prime the reel on daylight. But it get messy when the film slips out of the reel in the dark.