Load film

You load the film just the same as you do with any 120 camera. The roll of film sits very neatly in the round chamber on the right, and I use two nickels on each end just to center the roll in the camera. It also assures me that the camera is worth at least twenty cents. I used to use a piece of folded plastic on the right side to keep the roll pretty tight, but I found that it didn't make much difference. A red window also has to be made in the door. You can drill a hole right through the whole door, once you've estimated where it needs to go. At first, I made the hole in the center of the door that gets 12 6x6 cm frames, but this camera's frames are more like 6x7, so they overlap and you lose a little bit of each frame, but you still get 12 frames around 6x5cm. There's no set of numbers on 120 film that works for the camera's spacing, which could ideally get 10 frames, but it's really hard to space them right. I ended up making a hole for the top numbers, which get 16 smaller frames, and I skip from 1 to 3 to 5, etc and get a good, reliable 8 frames per roll. I got fancy with my windows and cut out the red plastic to be an exact fit inside the holes and glued them in place with super glue. You could also just tape the plastic over the hole. I would do it on the outisde so it doesn't get in the way of the film going by. My red plastic is from the lid of a tub of sandwich meat.

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