I can't believe I did this. Created a cave to load my first roll of infrared
film in my OM 2S, by blocking a window, going behind three doors each of
which had a towel stuff at the bottom, turned out all the lights anywhere near
where I was and sat down on the throne in total darkness. No, I didn't drop
the
film or the camera in the toilet. It was even dumber than that as that could
just be something one might do in total darkness. I opened the box, canister
and the camera back. Sat there in the dark trying to stab the film leader
into the take up spool. Finally was successful. Cocked the shutter, put the
can
of film in the proper place and pushed the rewind shaft into the canister,
pushed the shutter release and prepared to re-cock it to take up all the slack.
Did I hear the pleasant sound of the shutter release? Oh no, nothing that
wonderful. Instead I got the beep, beep, beep of the self timer and yes, the
beep brought with it, its friend, the little flashing red light. Dang, Dang
and
double Dang. I pushed the face of the camera into my leg and snapped the
back of the camera closed, said a few words I learned in the Navy (not really,
I
already knew them) and turned on the lights. I can't believe I did that. I've
burned a couple of extra frames of film attempting to get past any stuff I
screwed up. Does anyone out there have any feel for how bad that is going to
mess stuff up. If experience should tell me to start over, I can go buy
another
roll and ditch this one. Any advice? Bill "not really in total darkness"
Barber
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