Thanks. I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't doing something obviously feeding the film onto the real the way it seemed to want to go.(posted 8204 days ago)As far as age of the film goes, that may have something to do with my curling problem. The first two rolls I did (after a 30+ year hiatus) were a roll of Tri-X and one of T-max 400 which I bought from a local camera store. Curling was not a major problem with either of these. Then I bought several rolls of import Tri-X from B&H. The expiration date on these is 05/2003 which seems like the film is reasonably fresh. These, however, have given me some serious curling problems. When I cut them into six frame lengths, the pieces want to curl up into cylinders. This makes it very difficult to make contact sheets.
Interestingly, I recently had the same problem with a 12 shot roll of Ilford HP-5 Plus which I bought locally, also well within the date range on the container.
Peter Schauss