Terence David

Hey Bart, Thanks for the advice, sorry for such a late reply.... I got it working for a bit before I ever saw your post...but actually that's some great advice I may act on because it's starting to act up again! I've got a roll jammed in there now, arrrgh!!!

I've worked with 7265 Plus X BW reversal, 7266 Tri X BW Reversal and 7285 Color Reversal in school, and that's what I'll be testing with the K3. In addition I got a roll of Vision 2 7218 Color Negative, so I'm really excited about testing that. So far, my dummy film has been running fine and is no longer chewing back into the sprocket....I have loaded it almost a dozen times with no foul ups, and that's with the loop formers still attached, so I think it's safe to say the manual loading method has saved the day. Holograms? Tell me more!

Ira, Yeah, definitely not going to shoot any film until I make sure everything is tops. I have some some leader as well that I "borrowed" from school and that's what the K3 has been chewing on! Let me know how everything goes and I'll do the same!

Yep, that was secure, and it was running wonderfully on 8fps...then I turned it up to 24 fps, and it ran fine for a bit, but then the film chewed into the sprocket/capstan. Thanks for the info on removing the loop formers. And yeah, I found a great youtube video that shows how to remove the little buggers ,step by step.

Thanks for your help and advice everybody! So I tried to loading the film manually like you said Ian,and it worked....at first. But as I let it run for a bit the film ended up chewing back into the big black capstan. Rats! I'm going to remove the loop formers tonight and see if that helps any. I have 4 rolls of film I'm itching to test...this setback is driving me mad! Ok, I'll let you all know how it goes! Have a great weekend, Terence

Hi everybody, I'm having problems loading film into my k3. As you can see from the picture, the green arrow represents which way the film should be flowing, and the red arrow helps show what is actually happening. Basically the film keeps wanting to roll around the big black capstan, instead of leading around the loop formers and into the gate. Anybody know why this is happening and how to fix?! Thanks in adavance, and sorry for the poor picture and lighting quality of the photo! ~Terence