Time for a wunderbrick with auto rewind !
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> Subject: [OM] "I can't believe I did that!"
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> Here is my entry in the "I can't believe I did that!" cOMpetition:
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> As we have at last had some decent weather in the UK, I decided
> to take out
> a newly-acquired pre-loved OM body for a test roll of film. When
> I got back
> home, I started to rewind the film, and thought "Mmm, this is stiff". I
> continued winding, and thought "Mmm, this IS stiff". Wound some more and
> thought "My g*d this is stiff". I continued winding until suddenly the
> rewind
> knob came loose from the rewind crank. Now I started to panic.
> I used the
> film advance lever to wind on the film -- that worked and
> confirmed that the
> film was still attached to the spools at both ends. At this point I was
> completely nonplussed (my dictionary defines that as "reduced to hopeless
> perplexity"), so I opened the back and removed the film, which was indeed
> still engaged at both ends. Since I don't have a darkroom, the
> contents of
> the film were lost. It was only after I had done this that I
> twigged what I
> had done.
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> If you have ever removed the rewind knob on an OM body (I had done this on
> a previous body), you will know that the knob is screwed on to the rewind
> crank in such a way that rewinding a film tends to screw the rewind knob
> more tightly onto the crank. The fact that it had become unscrewed meant
> that (gasp!) I was rewinding the film the wrong way (that is,
> anticlockwise
> when viewed from the top of the camera). No wonder it was stiff! I
> refitted the rewind knob (easy if you use the right
> tools/procedure), and it
> seems none the worse for its ordeal.
>
> But I still cannot believe that I made such an elementary mistake. Doh!
>
> -- from Cy in the UK
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