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Topic: new 8mm reels - 33cm ?
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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted June 07, 2016 08:48 AM
Edwin,
What the world (at least OUR world..) needs is decent, inexpensive 1200 foot reels: no warping, no wobbling, no scraping.
I have one that is so wobbly it would scrape the side of the machine if I let it.
In the best case scenario I'd put all of these on the Elmo aluminum reels, but then again I'd also drive to work in a new car every year...
-then again, what would I do about "work"?
What is the capacity of your 33cm reel? (That sounds about 800 feet?)
What I like to see in a reel is ease of film capture. The absolute best ones are the ones with the sliding clip that rises to the edge of the reel, grabs the film and then you push it to the center. After that come the ones with the side fingers that you push inward while you spin the reel a few times. At the bottom are the ones with the wide slots that the film falls out of about five times before you manage to spin the reel and make it grab..
-------------------- All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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