Greg

I'll be happy to take you up on your swop offer, but try a roll of Rollie first - it may be just as curly as Efke.
To make it easier to load I usually bend the first 10mm of the roll back and crease it, then bend it back and forth a few times. This takes the curl out of the start of the film, and gives you something to feel when you are loading a stainless spiral. It helps with plastic spirals as well, and I've found that the older reels without the ball-bearing are easier to load than the Patterson ones.
It's nice to see Ag selling 127 film in addition to Retro, even if they are out of stock of Efke at the moment.
I used to use black plastic sacks and masking tape to black out windows - MDF and felt is definitely up-market :-).
By the way, If anyone has used a roll of Rollie film I'd be interested to know which developer, etc they used as I'm about to update my website to include the new film.

Brian

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