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Topic: What is your Favorite Brand of Reel?
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Claus Harding
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1149
From: Washington DC
Registered: Oct 2006
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posted April 28, 2012 05:24 PM
Super-8: For both great construction and pure elegance, I think the Elmo aluminum 1200-foot reels win. Light, sturdy and dependable.
For features, my house reel is a metal 2400-foot reel from Beaulieu. Strong and straight, excellent build quality.
For plastic, the Tuscan ones, with their smoked plastic shell and easy auto-take-up are in a heat with the grey-box/white-reel Schneiders for all-around good use and good looks.
The Grasso Cinebooks are nice with their clamshell design holding two plastic reels, but I find they seal quite firmly, necessitating some airing out of prints from time to time. Mind you, this is with my Kodachrome 40 originals in there, so I do tend to worry...
I have yet to give in to the siren song from Wittner and try the gorgeous-looking Posso reels with their equally gorgeous price tags....
Claus.
-------------------- "Why are there shots of deserts in a scene that's supposed to take place in Belgium during the winter?" (Review of 'Battle of the Bulge'.)
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Osi Osgood
Film God
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted April 28, 2012 08:37 PM
Definitely the most beautiful reel I have ever seen is the 1200 ft ELMO.
However, my absolute favorite reel is the 600ft Bonum grey plastic reels, and they are very good with film, never snagging and quite free flowing, as well as easy to loop film on! The 400ft Bonum reel, grey plastic reel (like the 600ft) are also just as good, but are harder to come by for me.
Nice topic! The 1200ft ELMO certainly has the vote!
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Hugh Thompson Scott
Film God
Posts: 3063
From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted April 29, 2012 04:22 AM
I think the ELMO 1200, is a good spool but the 800' does have a tendency to break in the same place every time at the base.The take up room on the 800' is limited by the fact it has a large core which was there to ensure smooth sound on the ST1200s. The nicest designed spool/can I feel must go to the NORIS,which was a very sensible set up with detatchable clear lid which was perfect for displaying box labels,the boxes also were nicely finished by having very smooth edges and corners,making them tactile, the core was slightly less which enabled more film storage. A spool which was a veritable boon in the UK was the one that was put out by a very good friend of mine,Mr Tony Churcher who gave us the SUPERSPOOL which came in 1600' & 2400' sizes,allowing epics like "EL CID" etc to be joined up and the intermissions shown correctly.They were very strong and I have quite a few just for the epics.The 1600 was the same size as the Elmo 1200' in diameter.
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