rehess wrote:
Back in 1971, after I'd had a 35mm camera for about two years, I had a long-remembered experience. I was touristing the Southwest,taking {for me} lots of pictures, when one morning the shot counter on my camera reached 27 ... on a 24 exposure roll. My first thought was "It's nice that they gave me some extra film", follow by "Oh NO!!!". Yes, it turned out that the film had not been caught up on the take-up reel, and all the pictures I'd taken on that roll actually weren't. Ever after then, I would pull the film taut as I loaded it, and then watch the rewind crank to make sure it was turning as I advanced the film.
This past Friday, forty-six years and some days after that experience, I was out shooting with the Pentax Super Program I had originally purchased in 1984. "Why?" my wife asked. "Well, just because I like visiting the good old days on occasion."
Except this wasn't a good old day, as I discovered as I passed exposure 27 on a 24 exposure roll. So, I rewound the film, and took it to my local camera store to be developed. Today I picked up my film - completely blank!! I had forgotten my lesson of forty-six years ago! This time, since those pictures were {not}taken just a few miles from home, I can go back to those places, but even so it is frustrating to make that same mistake twice in one lifetime,
Back in 1971, after I'd had a 35mm camera for abou... (
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I really pulled a good one. I think this tops all.....!
I had inherited a medium format camera. I was in the middle of designing an annual report brochure for a rather large company. There were about 25 executives that needed to have their pictures in the report. I set up the shots, seamless backdrop, etc, and one by one, I shot the exec's. Like I said, the camera was new to me, and when I loaded the film in, I loaded it in BACKWARDS! Both rolls of film. When I got back the prints, every print was black. Naturally... I was mortified. The dilemma.....should I tell the truth?
Ha....no way. I went back to the company and told them I needed to reshoot, because the fluorescent lights turned the images green. They bought it, (thank goodness.) The new batch of pictures were flawless and so was the design of the annual report. Needless to say, I made a lot of money on that project, and I never made that mistake again.
Rich...