i made a video on how to retrieve film leaders with no tools

[mknawabi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRT_9OQy6VA

if you guys could lemme know if there is anything i can fix in the video (i dont mind re-recording it in order to help some people) that would be great!

hope this can help some people out

(PS: Sorry for posting this thread twice, but I wasn't sure where the most optimal place to post it would be.. I guess this pertains to me because I always accidently fully rewind with my M6)

 

[ItsReallyDarren]

Cool! This'll save me from buying those film retrievers. So how does Tri-X taste anyway? Never gave it a good lick and now I dont have any to sample with.

 

[maddoc]

Well that looks easy !! Thanks for the video !! I will try it later today at home 🙂

 

[__hh]

What a cool trick... thanks for sharing..

 

[kmerenkov]

Too late, I already have film-picker, but this trick is useful outside of home (I had to develop outside my place once). Will consider 😛

 

[gcsk76]

Thanks for sharing.

 

[btgc]

Read this days before but after seeing video couldn't not to test method - and it works 😉 Thanks for HU!

 

[robin a]

Thanks,will have to try this method out,because,I know it'll happen again.........Robin

 

[oftheherd]

Let's hear it for youtube not being blocked at work. Thanks for the video help. I will remember that.

 

[Spider67]

Thanks great ...but did I miss something or do you after rewinding wind the film in the opposite direction before pulling out the leader?

 

[mknawabi]

Thanks great ...but did I miss something or do you after rewinding wind the film in the opposite direction before pulling out the leader?

Usually you just have to rewind without winding forward, as I had done. However, I had used this method on the film before which had caused it to get a little 'confused'

It is usually more straightforward than how it was on the video