In a message dated 12/27/1999 8:59:19 AM Mountain Standard Time,
dbulger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> 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.
Dave and all,
I shoot with way too many cameras so there's always a few cameras laying
around the house with long forgotten film type in them. To aid my feeble
memory as to whether I'm shooting B&W or color at least in these when I pick
them up again I have taken to sticking on an 1/2" diameter orange dot from
the office supply store with a note about film type. They peel on and off
easily and when I'm extra motivated I'll make up a batch of labels and stick
them to the cans of fresh film I keep in the fridge. When I load the camera
I just peel the orange dot off the film can, stick it somewhere on the camera
and I'm done. Much easier than those little film box "film -minder" holders
on the camera back.
Film reminder trick #2. This is a Minox shooter technique though I've found
old cameras at the flea market that also utilized this. If you are shooting
a chrome finish camera, OM1 or 2 for example, you can just make notes about
the film on the matte chrome finish with a #2, H, or HB lead pencil. Wipes
right off with a little moisture when you need to write on it again. If
you're shooting one of the plastic chromed cameras, OM10 and so forth you
might want to limit your notes to the baseplate as I don't know how sturdy
the plating is on these types. The metal cameras, no problem. My own
workhorse OM1n and 2n are both black bodies so I use the orange dots for
these.
I've got one Kodak 35 rangefinder with the Borg-like coupling of the RF to
the geared lens that has all sorts of intriguing notes about film and
aperture settings for various flash bulbs written all over its chrome cover.
I carefully cleaned around all these notes when I detailed the camera as I
thought it made for a more interesting artifact with all of this craft of
some long dead photographer preserved.
regards,
Carl Turner
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