Zuiks,
Arrrgh!
In my many years of using film to produce mediocre images of mediocre
subjects, I've developed two rules regarding film handling:
1) Always keep film in the "grab shot" camera (Trip 35)
2) Never keep film in the "serious" cameras (OMs)
Being too lazy and non-dextrous enough to actually use the
film-box-top-holder thing on the camera back, I try to identify the
subject, load the film I want to shoot, shoot, rewind & unload the film,
label the canister, process, view, cuss at the shots I _almost_ got, etc.
While I'll occasionally waste some frames on a roll, I'll tend to bracket,
shoot from a different viewpoint, etc. until I've used the entire roll.
I've found that if I leave film in the camera, it will a) be perfectly
unsuited for the next subject I want to shoot, and b) be horribly exposed
by daylight when I pop the back open without rewinding to load the film I
DO want to shoot.
Well, I broke rule #2 and paid for it by getting consequence b).
Shooting the moon, I was limited in my number of shots by the subject, the
location, and the fact that my 4 yr old was freaking out at being in a
large field in the dark and cold. I burned probably 15 - 20 shots on the
moon, then foolishly decided to leave the film in the camera ("I'll
remember!") for the next subject that happened to come up.
Uh uh. Wanting to shoot some neg film snapshots of the kids opening
presents, I grabbed the -2s and a roll of Royal Gold 100. Popped open the
back of the camera and was greeted with the sight of a roll of E100VS
half-wound through the camera, with the latent images of my moon shots
being fried by Christmas tree lights. All the moon shots that I was _sure_
National Geographic would pick up for their next cover were traded for
pictures of kids throwing aside expensive toys so they could play with the
boxes they came in. <g> Kid shots are more valuable to me than anything
else, but I have LOTS of kid shots and darn few of full moons on the Winter
Equinox.
I'm going to start searching the web for full moon shots over Russian
submarines and claim them for my own. <g>
Thanks for listening to me whine...
Dave
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