This happened to me while photographing a newly restored PRR steam
locomotive 1361 thundering around a bend in Pennsylvania. It's a painful
lesson.
John
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----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Norton <image66@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 11:21 AM
Subject: [OM] Film windage woes
> I got back a roll of B&W film in which I had one frame containing about 15
> shots. Seems that I never noticed that the leader came out of the wind
> spindle and I had accidently pressed the film rewind button at one point.
> By never noticing that the film rewind knob wasn't turning I ruined
> pictures from both my Oregon trip and a trip to Mississippi. So much for
> the mach wave pictures.
>
> Lesson learned.
>
> Oh, but I'm still trying to figure out why my camera refused to stop
> winding on a single frame earlier in the roll. In extremely cold
> conditions it would skip frames. Must be the grease inside causing the
cogs
> to not slide in place properly. Oh, well, I wasn't working too well that
> evening either.
>
> On a side note regarding the HP-5 and my late evening shots of the
> dilapidated farmhouse. I put the OM-2S in auto and with the exception of
> one shot (which hit the 2-minute terminator) every single one was exposed
> properly or even slightly over exposed (well I did have the exposure
> compensation set at +1/3). No recip failure here. I've got a beautiful
> set of negs to work with. Compared to the roll of TRI-X I had finished on
> the same site, I actually prefer the HP-5 over TRI-X! Of course, I
haven't
> looked too closely yet and the proof will be in the printing. Come to
> think of it, I was concerned enough with shadow detail that I did want
them
> slightly over exposed anyway! Hah! gotta love OTF and Olympus' long
> exposure times.
>
> Ken Norton
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