Step 2: The Take-up Side

The following procedures may be carried out in the light.

•Flip the magazine over so that the take-up door is uppermost and the top of the magazine is facing you. The ARRI on the door will be upside down.

•Open the take-up side magazine door and latch back the lay-on roller arm. Fit an empty film core to the take-up core holder making sure that the core holder key is engaged in the key slot of the film core.

•The film head should be protruding from the transfer roller Aphoto. Check that it is cut squarely through a perforation.

•Thread the film head around the forward guide roller as indicated inside the magazine. Without touching the film core, push the film head into the upper sprocket roller until its teeth engage in the film perforations Aphoto.

•Once the sprocket teeth have engaged in the film perforations, turn the film core until the film head emerges from the magazine throat.

•Set the loop length by pulling the film head away from you and align it with the loop mark on the bottom of the magazine Aphoto. Adjust the loop length by turning the take-up film core.

•Now take your hand off the film core – there is enough inertia in the sprockets to maintain the loop length.

loop length mark

 

 

 

rear guide roller

 

 

 

 

 

 

forward guide roller

film core

lower

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sprocket roller

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

upper

 

 

 

 

 

 

sprocket roller

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

transfer roller

footage counter roller

loop mark

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