Dave,
I've made the same disconcerting discovery on several rolls recently. I
haven't caught myself doing it, but I've done it several times lately, even
though I double check the filmspeed every time I use the +/- adjustments.
I've been fortunate not to have lost anything important. But I shoot negs,
so the latitude leaves something useable.
Your fellow IDIOT,
-Mickey
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From: <DAVDOU9211@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 8:54 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Cautionary Tale or I'M AN IDIOT!!!
> Sheesh,
>
> So I get this job to do some architectural shots for a local (large)
> commercial real estate developer.
>
> Last weekend I went to one of the two buildings in question and set up my
> OM-4t w/28/2.8 on a tripod. Loaded the camera with Portra 160NC. Used
the
> self-timer to prefire the mirror and aperture. I was gonna get the
sharpest
> possible photos. I bracketed a few shots just as an experiment and used
spot
> metering as well.
>
> Today I went to the second building to be photographed and using the same
> setup and the same roll of film, shot several frames. I was gonna get the
> greatest shots ever!
>
> I returned home and rewound the film and removed the cassette from the
OM-4t.
> I decided to load some 400 asa film and did so. I looked at the film
speed
> setting and ARRGH! it was already on 400. When did that get changed?
How
> many of the architectural shots did I take with the wrong film speed? Who
> knows?!!!!
>
> I have played with the OM-4t film speed ring a bit. Near as I can tell I
> must have inadvertantly lifted up on it as I was setting it to bracket.
If
> you do so and turn the ring to +1 or so, you also change the film speed.
> DAMN!
>
> So, fellow Zuiks, be damn careful. Now I get to do the shots over. At
least
> it wasn't a wedding or some other never-to-be-repeated scene.
>
> Dave Dougherty
>
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