How to Load 35mm Film to a Holga 120 CFN Camera

So apparently I wasn't able to acquire 120mm film at local photo stores anywhere here in my place just as I thought. Anyway, knowing the problem I have been reading loads of stuff in the internet and learning the basics of analogue cameras and its innards, I was able to find a way to do 120 cameras with 35mm film and I was kind of bored so... Moreover, what I'm going to show you, I believe, would be applicable to many 120 analogue cameras regardless of the model.

Step 1: WHAT YOU NEED?

1) Holga 120 (any 120 analogue camera)

2) 35mm Film

3) Popsicle Sticks (but you could do it with any material, tongue depressor for example -- anything that can easily be cut to a specified width would work)

4) Pair of Scissors

5) Foil

6) Pencil (any marker)

7) Electrical Tape (any tape would do)

Comments

[jrfrank]

Good project, could make some interesting wide slides!

[diegot]

Wow! All this trouble to turn a medium format to the lowly 35 mm??
There are plenty of places on the web where you could get 120 and 220 film, (Amazon for one).
I don't think it's worth the time and effort to actually get lower quality results.

[doodle_m]

How many turns of the spool do you do between exposures?

[Analogue-Chick]

I ran a test film to determine just about that and what it revealed after processing is: for one turn, almost half of the image overlaps to the next frame; one and a half turns, one-fourth of the image overlaps to the next frame. So the best thing to go with 35mm film loaded to a Holga 120 CFN camera is two turns although I'm not sure if this applies to all 120 cameras.