Have to share a screw-up

[pakeha]

no, the aussies would have noticed, this travel story is all over the bars in Sydney

 

[David_Manning]

The Aussies didn't seem to notice...or they were too polite to say anything. Then again, I didn't let on I just screwed up terribly. The only physical sign was the cold sweat trickling down my back. Maybe they noticed that as I scampered away.

 

[youngmrcurtis]

A friend of mine wanted to get into photography, and liked the idea of shooting film, so I gave him my minolta x700. A few weeks pass, him very enthusiastic about all these shots he's taking, bringing his notepad eveywhere to note down what settings he had on the camera, finishes the roll, but something doesn't feel right as he is rewinding the film, should be more resistance then a noticable click, if what I told him was correct. So he brings it to a camera shop, asks them for help, the girl working there also doesn't think it feels right. Brought it into the darkroom, pops it open...

Turns out I put the roll of film in, but didn't actually yank it across and load it...is it worse or better that my stupidity didn't affect me directly...?

 

[alexz]

Just two weeks back from Colombia trip (for work) - luckily had some time to shoot around (albeit much less then I would love to be able to). Had my M6 with 35mm cron asph. The company generously hired a private tour guide for me at my spare time, he took me to a city tour (Bogota) and then to the other one to the rural side. When at the rural, we got to some small town, I asked him for a sstop to shoot around some nicely looking location, it was morning, very few of the people around, excellent time to shoot a nice squares and old caffes with only a few single figures (llike single street cleaner at work) making up an excellent props...so I happily shoot around 30 images and we got back driving to a salt mines nearby we arrived to visit.
Only a hour afterwards, when willing to change the film I realized I'm on something like 40-42 on the counter which made my sweating and hard feeling in my guts...indeed, didn't mahage to ceck film loaded by a rewind crank when loaded that film...it wasn't on take-up spool, so all I shoot there was on nothing....
Luckily we hade some spare time on our way back, so I asked the driver to make a stop there once again on our way back, but that was some 3 hours later - the place was busy with a crowd..

Even though I consider film loading on my M6 to be quite straight forward and reliable if done properly, somehow I noticed all that combersome loading of my M3 makes it somehow more foolproof, probably just due to the fact that more attention and efforts are necessary for M3, so one automatically has to follow all the precautions leaving nearly no chance for M3 to get misloaded.

 

[Max Cooper]

I'm borrowing my dad's Konica Auto S2 to give rangefinders a try. The meter is in the lens barrel, and the only way to turn it off is to keep a lens cap on it, or keep it in the case. Otherwise, you risk running down the battery.

I am working on a documentary project at a shooting range (declarearms.com), and I took the camera there and shot a roll of Portra 400VC. Mostly they shoot handguns, but towards the end of the match, a guy stepped up to the line with an AR-15 chambered in 9mm. I got three perfect shots . . . of the back of the lens cap.

Lesson learned. Batteries are cheap, moments are priceless.

 

[35mmdelux]

I opened the back on K64, closed it immediately and lost 1 or 2 frames. Fortunately the shots of Arnold Swarzenneger were on the roll I had secured earlier.