Konica Bulk Loader

[Dan95]

At first glance this seems better made than the AP ones.

But I cant find the usage for the thingy picture below

On the manual it's labelled as 'Patron parts'. Any idea what it does?

 

[Dante_Stella]

Is it the thing that closes the light gate on old Leica and Nikon film cartridges? That's a residual feature of modern loaders (the disc with the "fingers").

 

[Dan95]

Makes perfect sense now.

In the manual it made reference to Nikon cartidges. Ill just tape the bugger up.

 

[sevo]

No need to tape that up, unless it is loose and prone to fall off - that is quite a no-leak location. And you'll need it if you should ever load Contax/Leica/Nikon/etc. cartridges.

 

[newfilm]

Sorry to revive this thread, I have the same loader, and the same side cap thing like yours where I can turn, but it does not have the "tooth" to open or close those nikon/canon/leica metal cassette. I wonder how is yours looks like on the other side of the cap?

 

[sevo]

My current ROWI branded one does not have a tooth either. But I remember a slotted circular protrusion on the loaders we had in art school. As there are at least four or five different auto-opening re-usable cassette schemes (Leica, Contax, Nikon S/F and Nikon F2), there must have been a variety of matching lids (obviously including a blank one). Probably the loaders were originally sold with one of several options, or with a set of them.

 

[newfilm]

hm... looks like I have to open and close my metal cassette in changing bag then, I prefer this type of square film loader as compare with the Alden version that was reported to have the tooth to open and close the metal cassette. Oh well, can't have everything perfect 🙂