unloading a arriflex 2c mag

[Bruce Morgan]

Hello To 35mm film users .
I have aquired a set of 400 foot capacity arriflex 2c mags which have a permenant core installed on the take up side of the mag chamber .

I thought my training was complete but this has me stumped .

There is a release latch so that the film core of exposed film will release without the core -

however
this business of taking the film out with no core seems really bad .

The only solution I can improvise is
1- hold mag in black bag in vertical position
2-depress latch of magazine take up core
3-carefully slide film mag into a new plastic core -no tape .
thre has to be a proceedure I am missing
So any help is appreciated
Arriflex had more effective plans for filmakers than risking exposed film to sinching :dankk2:

 

[Ryan Patrick O'Hara]

There is a release latch so that the film core of exposed film will release without the core -

however
this business of taking the film out with no core seems really bad .

The only solution I can improvise is
1- hold mag in black bag in vertical position
2-depress latch of magazine take up core
3-carefully slide film mag into a new plastic core -no tape .
thre has to be a proceedure I am missing
So any help is appreciated
Arriflex had more effective plans for filmakers than risking exposed film to sinching :dankk2:

Your plan seems good, but the transfer to a new core seems very difficult.

The take up side of a 400' Arri IIc magazine does have a clamp to secure the film to the core, but the core is not removable, as you have discovered. This means you will have to be extra careful when downloading a mag, as your hands will have to support both the center and outer edge of the film roll. The support offered by a removable core is absent in this case.

Quoted from the Professional Cameraman's Handbook Fourth Edition, by Sylvia Carlson & Verne Carlson:

Page 228 11.14g

Unloading (Arri IIC Magazine)

In darkness, remove lid.

122m (400ft) Magazine. Disengage take-up clamp (push outward) on magazine that has a collapsible core; place index finger in core space, thumb on edge of roll; turn magazine over, and remove film. Place exposed roll in bag and can.

Seems holding the roll by pinching the inner radius with the outer, can help apply pressure to prevent an incident of the roll 'un-spooling'. Has the lab you worked with expressed the absolute need, to have the film on a core?