Adox Golf folding camera question??

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i got a Adox Golf I con Adoxar 6.3/75 mm ~ folding camera ~ 6x6

i have a simple question - when advancing film, how and when do i know when to stop??

 

[xayraa33]

red window, check for frame number on the film paper backing.

 

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i still dont get it.. sorry..

i have the film in the camera, looking on the red window on the back of the camera, i see the lead paper, then i see the film... now what? when do i stop winding..

thanks for the clarafication.

 

[kmack]

i still dont get it.. sorry..

i have the film in the camera, looking on the red window on the back of the camera, i see the lead paper, then i see the film... now what? when do i stop winding..

thanks for the clarafication.

Oops, sounds like you loaded the film upside down.

The backing paper has a remarkably complex series of numbers, arrows, lines and dots, all designed to show you how far you have wound the film. You should not see the film.

 

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kmack.. please check your PM

 

[xayraa33]

you are using 120 film not 220 right?
usually a number of dots and or arrows appear in the red window, keep winding till nr. 1 appears.

 

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OH...... i loaded 220 film...

first time using this camera, so i have to use 120?

 

[xayraa33]

yep, 120 film only.

 

[kmack]

Sent you a pm, yep, this is a 120 camera. You did not load it upside down, my bad.

 

[xayraa33]

Sent you a pm, yep, this is a 120 camera. You did not load it upside down, my bad.

how can you loaded it upside down?

 

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thanks guys... will need to get some 120 film tomorrow..

 

[kmack]

how can you loaded it upside down?

It seems a no brainer, you load the film so the paper backing is on top, so it rolls clock wise, now flip the roll upside down so the film rolls out counter clock wise and the paper is on the bottom....


Yes it can be done, I know from experience...😱

 

[xayraa33]

so you load the roll with the emulsion facing the back door and the paper facing the back of the lens?

 

[kmack]

so you load the roll with the emulsion facing the back door and the paper facing the back of the lens?

Yep, upside down.

 

[xayraa33]

the Adox Golf was my first camera, I got it as a child in 1964 and never ever managed to load a roll of film like that.
one has to see the dots at the start of a roll before one closes the door and if the roll was " upside down" all one would see at the start is the black backing of the paper of the film side, and that would be a clue of a $crewup in the making.
one has to really try hard to manage to to this.

 

[kmack]

one has to really try hard to manage to to this.

Now your just making me feel bad. 🙂
It was a long time ago and one of the first times I loaded a Zeiss 510. I thought the backing paper was supposed to be black.

 

[xayraa33]

do not feel bad, we all managed to to do silly no brain things in life , I still do. I look at it as a part of the learning process , the early part that makes you angry at yourself, but the beauty of this is that one rarely repeats the same mistake, .. what a way to learn.
I suppose there was a film company that made 120 film in Eastern Europe maybe, that used black outside paper for the 120 film roll... but with white dots and frame numbers, you never know. 🙂