Heh heh. That is a good one. I do that far too often with my 4T. But never
with IR in it.
But I wouldn't worry about the film. You may have slightly fogged any film
that was out of the can, but the rest is OK I'm sure?
If you're like me, you'll do far more damage to the Hie when you expose it! :>)
And then there's development! But it's a great fun film but takes a lot of
experimenting and getting used to.
G
-----Original Message-----
From: NSURIT@xxxxxxx [mailto:NSURIT@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:26 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Dumb things you do with a camera
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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