Rob,
You might be loading your paper on the track fro the darkslide. A film
holder has two tracks inside. One is for film (or paper) and is loaded
through the bottom. The bottom flips down and from there you can see the
two tracks. Make sure the paper sits in the lower track. The darkslide
uses the upper track and is inserted through a felt trap at the top. You
could also be having problems with you paper being cut a tad to wide.
4x5 film is really 3.9"x4.9" so that it slides into the holders right.
If you cut 8x10 cleanly in half, you might be having some bowing of the
paper. This might be what caught on the darkslide when you tried to put
it back in. If that is the case, try to trim a little more off the
sides. Having it extra long won't work as it won't fit into the film
track right. Good luck. Its not to hard when you have proper instructions.
R Duarte wrote:
>well..... i asked this question about a month ago and i just tried it last
>week. yikes. it worked once and the other time, the darkslide crunched the
>paper and popped it out of the holder instead of sliding in front of the
>paper. of course this all happened inside the camera so i couldn't help it
>at all. i guess i could've brought the camera back to the darkroom when i
>suspected trouble (uh oh, the dark slid isn't sliding!) but then what's the
>point of using the holders if this is going to happen every other time! i
>think the trick is going to be to cut the paper a bit longer than 5" so that
>it hangs out of the holder a little. that way i can feed the darkslide in
>FRONT of the paper before pushing it in further. i'm not quite sure how the
>holder keeps itself light-tight though, so i'm wondering if leaving the
>paper hanging out of the holder a bit is going to cause light to leak inside
>somehow. i'll have to try it. so my question is, why doesn't my problem
>happen with film? maybe i should've positioned the camera so it was on its
>back when i put the slide in. hmm.
>
>rob
>
>
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