Customer Reviews

Hewes 35mm 36 Exposure Pro Stainless Steel Reel - Hewes HW35

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These are way better than the generic or Adorama brands. Even on Adorama's website, their own brand of reel has horrible reviews. I bought a generic brand first because it was cheaper, but that was a waste of money and film! Even in daylight, I could not get the film to load on the generic brand. I finally did some research and found these (Hewes brand). Who knew that there could be such a huge difference in quality?? The Hewes brand practically loads itself. If you are using plastic reels and are thinking of switching to stainless steel, don't go for the cheap ones, you will just waste your money and ruin your film. The Hewes brand is easily worth the money. Instead of a spring clip to grasp your film, it has two prongs that catch your film by the sprocket holes. Loading is a breeze from there. Again, I don't know why the generic ones are even being made. The person who designed them obviously knows nothing about film and how the stainless steel reels are supposed to work. The Hewes brand is a great product and is a breeze to use.

Unlike many generic reels, this one just works exactly as it's supposed to -- film simply goes in on the first try. The prongs that hold the film sprockets are ingenuios too. The twelve dollar difference between this piece of engineering and inferior generic alternatives is well justified.

These stainless steel reels are what has been used in wet darkrooms for many, many years and are still the best you can buy. Nowadays, companies are making the cheap plastic reels and plastic tanks which in my opinion, aren't as good as the stainless steel. I've used both and the stainless steel tanks and reels always seem to work better for some reason. This one works very well. I've loaded a few dozen rolls onto this thing and have never had a problem with any of my rolls of film coming loose or falling off the reel.

I bought this reel used... I am happy with the pre-owned Hewes 35mm reel, the previous owner took good care of the reel, and was able to ship with original box. I would buy used again.

As far as reels go, the Hewes photographic equipment is alway high quality, if given a choice in product name I will always buy Hewes first, this is why I choose to buy used, because their equipment is so well made I can not see anyone abusing it to where it could become useless.
redkey

Over several decades I've used various kinds of reels for developing 35-mm film and finally tried these from Hewes. They are by far the best of the kinds I've used. Near the center of the reel is a piece of metal with two little prongs that fit the sprocket holes on the film; when you spool the film onto the reel you latch the end of the film onto the two prongs and the film is held nicely in place. Since getting the Hewes reels I've processed a half-dozen rolls with no problems, and for me they are faster to load. Highly recommended.

This is a top notch reel. Made of quality stainless steel for durability and made of thicker metal than other brands to help prevent bending. Has a very easy clip to assist in rolling your film up. I've tried the Adorama reel and it paled it comparison. I would definantly recommend this product to anyone looking for a quality reel.

This is a replacement for the reel that came with a tank I purchased. The tank is good, but the reel wasn't (I think Chinese made). Anyway, this reel is heavy duty, and film loads easily - though loading anything in a changing bag takes some practice.

This was advertised as a Hewes brand reel, it was NOT a Hewes Reel, it was a cheaply made Japanese brand that does not work well at all.