In article <49uc52$5gn@peabody.Colorado.EDU>, keivom@rintintin.Colorado.EDU says...
>As someone who has used bulk film for 2 years, my level of photography
>and the commitment has made bulk film unacceptable. There are so many
>factors with bulk film: scracthes, fogged film at the end of the
>rolls(causing missed shot of lifetime); fogged frames for unknown
>reasons, losing rolls cuz something was wrong with a brand new bulk
>roller. (rest deleted)

And now for the other side - I have been bulk loading film for 30
years, and I find I average FEWER scratched rolls than pre-loaded
Tri-X (at least pre-loaded film in the 70's, when I got Tri-X for
free). Done carefully, using loaders with traps that open (not felt
traps), using quality cartridges (my Kodaks seem to last forever,
as long as I don't leave film stored in them [the tongue left in
the trap tends to render the traps less light-tight in time]),
there have been few problems (though one, mentioned by J. Keivom,
got me last night, alas: an important last frame was lost in the
fogged tail end of the roll). Advantages to rolling your own:
price (at least, after you have worked off the set-up costs),
quality (potentially fewer scratches than commercial loads - at
least after you sort out the small percentage of cartridges that
scratch film), large stock and selection (with a few loaders with different film in them, you have MANY rolls of film available, of
different types, stored in a small space), ability to have special
loads (I like 35 exposure rolls [a roll fits on an 8x10 contact
sheet] - or 40 exp. loads for lens checking), ability to have unusual tongue shapes (I find that straight film ends load more reliably in
my 8008's), and ease of carying film in the camera bag (the boxes
that Kodak used to use for their cartridges held 10 in individual
boxes that fit in a small box - it is easy to code the box positions
by turning them in the larger box to tell me whether there is film
in a box, whether it has been exposed, in what order it was exposed,
and even if I have two different film types in the same box).
Disadvantages to rolling your own: several, but I still prefer to
do it my way.
Hope this helps.