Alden 200 model 72 film loader

[kiemchacsu]

Just want to share that I recently bought this huge baby.
I was hunting for an Alden 74 but this one show up and Took it without thinking too much. I do not know if it is actually useful for me since I am loading 100ft film rolls most of the time.
Any one using this 200ft loader could share their experience? Thanks a lot.
Btw, it was $60 shipped.

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[Bolo Kukus]

Google is your friend on this one - all the information about the two loaders is available online. Just look for it.

I've used the bigger Alden model since about 1990. It cost about $40 new in Australia. Mine has a 100-foot roll of FP4 in it, which I've had since 2012. I spool off a roll every year, to photograph family and our cats on Australia Day, so it may well outlast me.

In this day and age $60 is a reasonable price. If you find it doesn't suit you, list it on Ebay for $80 and get your money back. Someone will buy it. People buy anything on Ebay. As we all know.

As I recall, loading the thing is a challenge, you have to be extra careful with the sprockets, make sure your film is correctly loaded and the sprockets (film and loader) are aligned, then all will be just fine. If not properly loaded, you will soon know.

In all my time as a photographer (I got the addiction in 1961), i've never come across a 200-foot roll of 35mm bulk film. Does such a thing exist? And if yes, where?

 

[Freakscene]

In all my time as a photographer (I got the addiction in 1961), i've never come across a 200-foot roll of 35mm bulk film. Does such a thing exist?

Yes, indeed.

And if yes, where?

In the past. Mentioned in an ad here:
https://books.google.com.au/books?i...jgGHSM_BvoQ6AEwBXoECAsQKQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
Popular Photography 1948.

A good friend of my father’s died in 2000. He was a medical doctor and researcher who specialised in tissue biology. I inherited an Alden 72 full of Adox KB 17 from him. With some benzotriazole it still worked well, despite being at least 27 years old.

Marty

 

[Vince Lupo]

The Alden 200 was my one and only bulk film loader, got mine in about 1981 and got rid of it about 5 years ago. Very reliable, well-made, easy to use.

 

[kiemchacsu]

oh; after few days there are some responses now.
eventually I decided to sell it, so a guy that use it to load cinema films (400 ft and 1000 ft roll) into 135 cassettes. Me myself thought that the chance that I use it is very rare, as I mentioned in my initial post. in the opposite, it would be very helpful for someone who deal with cinema films like the guy who bought the Alden 200 from me.

 

[kiemchacsu]

Google is your friend on this one - all the information about the two loaders is available online. Just look for it.

I've used the bigger Alden model since about 1990. It cost about $40 new in Australia. Mine has a 100-foot roll of FP4 in it, which I've had since 2012. I spool off a roll every year, to photograph family and our cats on Australia Day, so it may well outlast me.

In this day and age $60 is a reasonable price. If you find it doesn't suit you, list it on Ebay for $80 and get your money back. Someone will buy it. People buy anything on Ebay. As we all know.

As I recall, loading the thing is a challenge, you have to be extra careful with the sprockets, make sure your film is correctly loaded and the sprockets (film and loader) are aligned, then all will be just fine. If not properly loaded, you will soon know.

In all my time as a photographer (I got the addiction in 1961), i've never come across a 200-foot roll of 35mm bulk film. Does such a thing exist? And if yes, where?

If I were you, that shoot only 1 roll per year, I never mess up with that kind of loader things. Using factory manufactured roll is much convenient.