Something very much like this has happened to me. I
had just taken up photography (I was about 15 at the
time) and wanted to jump into the art so I got my
hands on some professional black and white film,
(Expensive stuff) and went out and took some great
shots of my high school, classmates and teachers.
(Most these shots made it into the yearbook) anyway it
was my first day truly taking pics with a truly manual
camera (had been taking pics with a Ricoh p&s) and
when it came to rewind the film I found out that I
couldn't remeber which way to turn the rewind lever
(this was a 2n where the little arrow is black and
hard to see) well I spun the lever a few times until I
heard a crunch. The film had broken off the spool! I
was careful and opened the back in a dark area so only
one picture was ruined but it took the lab three weeks
to get the film out of the camera and developed.
Mark LLoyd
> Tom,
> IIRC, the flashes fire full tilt if the camera is in
> manual mode. I almost
> forgot one of my more crushing gaffes. Only
> happened once and I was
> cured. Finished off a roll in the Contax IIIa a
> couple years ago and
> waited until I was in my car to unload the film.
> Opened the back (which
> completely slides off) staring at a roll of film
> wound up on the takeup
> spool. I had neglected to rewind the film.
> Fortunately only the last
> half-dozen frames were lost and was able to reshoot
> them the next day, but
> it required a second trip to Indianapolis and most
> of a day to do it. Ever
> after that I *always* spin the rewind knob a couple
> of turns to ensure
> there is either no film in the body or that it's
> rewound completely
> *before* opening the back on all the 35mm cameras
> now (medium format is a
> different story; I look at the frame counter which
> will not advance past
> "S" unless there's film in it).
>
> -- John
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