Loading 35mm Film Into an Antique Box Camera 

Awesome video, thanks for the tips! I'll be giving it a try this weekend!

It's helpful to use masking tape over the viewfinder to represent what will be exposed on the film. My viewfinder was much larger than yours, about 2"x2". I didn't want to lose the whole view as I sighted in, so I cut very thin strips with an X-acto blade about 1/32" thick and placed them over top.

So how do you develop these filmroles?? Because of the strange dimensions of each shot... can you still bring it in a shop or do you develop them yourself?

Very helpful video, thanks! I hadn't thought of using 35mm film like this but now inspired to give it a go.

I bet if you use 100 or 160 ISO film, the results won’t be so overexposed. Great job regardless and thanks for sharing!

I use a Canon 9000f flatbed scanner, and the trick for getting the sprocket holes is you have to use a film holder for a medium format film.

Very cool, thanks for showing the process. I am going to give it a try.

Excellent sir,thanks

Or just take the 35mm film remove it from the cartridge and tape it to the paper the original 620 film came with ( in total darkness of course) and shoot it like the normal 620 film did. Using the frame numbers and all

One question - Why would you want to do this? Considering that 120mm film is just as readily available as 35mm, and costs roughly the same...? This really seems to be more trouble than it would be worth, to be honest...

Awesome! Thank you for giving me an idea!

I would use tape on the tail when loading it to save 2 or 3 exposures worth of film

I learned a lot thanks for the video

Very interesting , your thumbnail camera caught my eye and to think I just bought mine for show. Always good to see Vintage being used. Tape is good option, have you tried something more permanent like closed cell foam. I just bought two Brownie cameras for display, with the cost of film would cost me just about what the cameras cost to do this. Curious as I couldn't find recent refs off what is shown in your video. Are you shooting Slide or regular negative film and just showing negatives reversed in post on a computer. Great stuff went to your site. All brings back memories. Dark rooms, red lights, and the exposure CLOCK ;) Fun stuff. Great channel... Thanks.

Really cool! I'll give it a try!

nice! let me know how it turns out!

That is a pretty slick idea!

How many exposures can you take with a 35mm roll?

So I have one but I can’t figure out how to get it opened it is an Alka Box and I can’t find anything on how to get it to work do u have any suggestions for my situation

Cute video

Hey, I have a question about mine. It has a real gold emblem embedded into the back plate. It is not glued on...it's actually flush into the back piece. I have looked everywhere and cannot find any other one like it. Do you know anything about that? Maybe it was custom made as a dedication or something?

When you're counting those sprocket holes, how do you know where the next frame will be?

What type of scanner do you use? The one I have masks of the sprockets.

I might be getting a brownie to try this.

I am hoping to shoot 35mm in my 1912 Vest Pocket Kodak

Is there a way to double expose with these box cameras? I have a Kodak brownie and an Argus 75

Try using a black trash 🗑️ bag, they do the same thing as a film changing bag.

Why don’t you shoot 120 through it???? 120 is readily available.

I found a camera like that in my house, I'll try to make it work :)

nice!

Thanks for the info. So that's how it's done.

I'm scratching my head, wondering just why I'd want to ruin/waste a perfectly good roll of 35mm film in this way? Just plain wierd!