Box camera with winding knob
A box camera offers the photo enthusiast a chance to experience photography at its most basic, unadorned level. Only a shoebox pinhole camera has fewer moving parts than a box camera. However, since compact film cameras and digital cameras have replaced box cameras for most photography applications, it may not be immediately obvious load film into a box camera. Fortunately, loading film in a box camera is a fairly straightforward procedure, and you can successfully load a box camera on your first try.
Instructions
1. Unlatch any safety latches holding the back of the camera closed. Pull out the film winder knob, which is the large knob on the side of the camera.
2. Pull out the inside box from the outer box camera casing. This inside box is known as the "cone." Observe the hole on the cone where the winder knob fits.
3. Insert an empty film spool into one side of the cone. Each side of the cone contains a film-holder assembly. The empty film spool should go into the film-holder assembly on the side of the cone where the winder knob fits into the cone. This is known as the take-up side of the film-holder assembly.
4. Flip the cone so that you see the opposite film-holder assembly. This is the side of the cone that will receive the new roll of film. Completely unwrap the tape from a new roll of film.
5. Load the film into the empty film holder assembly with the paper backing facing out. Pull the paper backing up around the side of the cone, over the back of the cone, and down to the take-up side containing the empty film spool.
6. Insert the paper backing into the empty film spool. Pop the empty film spool out of the take-up film-holder assembly and twist the film spool until the paper is tight. Reinsert the empty film spool into the take-up film-holder assembly.
7. Insert the loaded cone back into the outer camera casing. Make sure that the winder knob is still out. Push the winder knob back in when the cone is in place, and relatch any safety latches.
8. Turn the winder knob until the number "1" appears in the film counter window on the back of the camera.
Tags: empty film, film spool, empty film spool, film-holder assembly, winder knob