I like the results from the Aurora 800, the plastic cassette gave me some trouble. It needed some assistance to drop into the M4-2 and for some reason, the leader kept slipping out of the tulip. The camera is still loaded with it and I have a couple of more rolls. It's been a fun experiment and recomended if you need a high speed color film.
One more roll to scan, so more images coming.
Desmolicious wrote:
Is the film leader trimmed like a regular film eg TriX, Gold, HP5 etc? Or is it just cut at a slant?
It’s cut with a tongue like most film. My best guess is the cassette was kinda snug in the feed side well and it may have shifted just a bit when attaching the baseplate causing the film to slip through the slots on the tulip. After it happened a couple of times, I just gave it a bit of a turn with the advance lever before attaching the baseplate. Worked just fine when I did that.
madNbad wrote:
I like the results from the Aurora 800, the plastic cassette gave me some trouble. It needed some assistance to drop into the M4-2 and for some reason, the leader kept slipping out of the tulip. The camera is still loaded with it and I have a couple of more rolls. It's been a fun experiment and recomended if you need a high speed color film.
One more roll to scan, so more images coming.
I've had similar experiences with most of the Flic Film cannisters, not just Aurora: the cannisters themselves seem slightly bulkier than others and it's a very snug fit in my Leica in particular. And there's quite a bit of resistance as you wind on the film so I've also had to load the film a couple of times to get the leader to stay in the tulip. They seem to try to be generous with quantity: I almost always get at least 40 shots per roll instead of 36, but I guess that means they wind it more tightly and it doesn't unroll as freely.
For those reasons I tend to use Flic Film films in my Canon P or my Minolta, rather than my Leica.
I have three rolls of Aurora 800 left and want to finish them before winter comes, as I don't shoot much colour film in winter.
madNbad wrote:
It’s cut with a tongue like most film. My best guess is the cassette was kinda snug in the feed side well and it may have shifted just a bit when attaching the baseplate causing the film to slip through the slots on the tulip. After it happened a couple of times, I just gave it a bit of a turn with the advance lever before attaching the baseplate. Worked just fine when I did that.
It's a plastic reusable cassette with no DX code. The kind that use that forked tool to open them up. I had to make my own tin foil code for a roll. So those cassettes aren't a great fit for an M? I was thinking about bulk rolling with some but I havent placed an order yet.
ottokbre wrote:
It's a plastic reusable cassette with no DX code. The kind that use that forked tool to open them up. I had to make my own tin foil code for a roll. So those cassettes aren't a great fit for an M? I was thinking about bulk rolling with some but I havent placed an order yet.
Not the best example but the Flic cassette with a standard plastic reloadable one. Without actually measuring the two and just using an eyeball end to end comparison, the Flic cassette is definitely a bit thicker. The end caps on the Flic Film are different than the plastic screw on.
madNbad wrote:
Not the best example but the Flic cassette with a standard plastic reloadable one. Without actually measuring the two and just using an eyeball end to end comparison, the Flic cassette is definitely a bit thicker. The end caps on the Flic Film are different than the plastic screw on.
Thanks for the link. Taking a closer look at the Flic cassette, it doesn’t use a fiber light trap making it less likely to scratch the film.
I have a bulk loader but mostly for nostalgia.
I watched a video and Flic cassettes do use felt but they offer replacement strips.
