Best tips on handling medium format film || How to

Some tips on loading, unloading Medium Format film. Soon I will make a video on actually shooting with it and some useful tips for that.

Thanks to Hogarth Ferguson for sharing some tips with me and helping me decide which tips were worth sharing. Check his work here:

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[zguy]

The extra spool with tape is a great idea, I'll definitely be adding that to my bag

[LeytonC]

An excellent collection of tips for medium format film.

[nerwanisnoone]

This was useful, after suffering a couple of irritating light leaks on the sides of my negatives, I'm going to be following this advice most carefully. Thanks for making the video.

[bthemedia]

1:20 aligning the spool pegs is a great idea
1:45 missed loading the roll - but in another video you emphasized keeping tension on the take-up spool, so the film and paper are tight.
1:49 good to mention “re-tightening” the spool as it could have started loose or became loose after removal.
All great tips... a couple times I have been out with camera and no take-up spool! Extra spool with gaffers tape is a great tip :)

[materiagrezza]

Great video. I'm starting to do film photography because it is one of the subject of the Fine Arts academy I'm attending, and I already used several disposable cameras, and planning to get a 120 ASAP.

[monmioamio]

🙏🏻 for the tips. I like to reuse instax wide foil packaging for shielding my exposed roll.

[sophrapsune]

Learned some of those lessons the hard way myself...

[manuobi]

A question about scanning film: Do I have to put the glossy or the emulsion side to the scanner? thanks

[groovesme]

Nico you missed the most important tip. How to score such a nice Pentax!