ROTFLMAO! I feel your pain, Steve. I presume you definitely scored points
with your significant other as well!
RonS
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Steve Goss
> Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 12:02 AM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] Re: Film loading question
>
>
> And remember, it could be worse. I sent my wife off with my OM2n
> to shoot our
> daughter's first ballet recital dress rehearsal a week ago. No,
> I didn't load
> the film wrong. I forgot to load the film period...
> Steve Goss, Dallas Tx usa
>
> Giles wrote:
> >
> > after inserting the film leader in the take up spool, fire the shutter
> > then wind on a frame so the leader wraps around the spool and is then
> > overlapped by film. Then position the sprocket holes of the film on the
> > film advance cogs, take up the slack with the rewind lever 'then' close
> > the back and shoot two blank shots and check the rotation of the
> > folded rewind lever.
> >
> > I never try and squeeze an extra shot at the beginning of a
> roll prior to
> > the counter registering frame 1. I have previously had otherwise good
> > shots ruined because they were too close to the leader and suffered
> > partial wipe out.
> >
> > Giles
> >
> > Brett Lucas wrote:
> >
> > > loading. Recently I loaded the 35mm film roll into
> > > the camera, and inserted the tail end of the film roll
> > > into the take up spool, and closed the back of the
> > > camera. I then started shooting off the roll of film.
> >
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