Don't you just hate when you...

[kdemas]

Open up your M and discover there's an un-rewound roll still inside! Kodachrome no less 🙁

What have you done lately, photographically, that made you cringe?

 

[sepiareverb]

I had a bunch of film to run the other day, and was waiting on a phone call- decided to at least load the films then run them after the call.

Well the call came in while I was loading, I'd just cut the spool off a roll of HP5, so put it in the tank and put the lid on. Answered the phone, turned on the lights and settled the appointment. I'd put the film down next to the tank and put the lid on the empty tank. Hadn't messed up a roll in a long time either, except for that roll of Neopan 1600 at 200....

 

[januaryman]

Just had a roll developed that had shots from 3 sessions. Late winter, mid spring and some taken last week. Scanned and used the current date for indexing purposes. I usually force myself to use the entire roll at once, but occasionally, there's no way to do that. Why waste film? I have learned patience.

 

[lynnb]

Ouch.

Last week I forgot to focus my Isolette. To make matters worse, soon after I forgot to focus my Trip 35. Autofocus on digicams and DSLRs has brought too many bad habits!

 

[Spleenrippa]

I managed to get a chunk of my finger in every single frame on a roll I recently shot with my new CV 15/4.5... A little wider than the 21 I'm used to!

 

[Keith]

I was dry firing the shutter of a camera that hadn't been exercised for a while ... good habit I'm told!

As I put it down after firing the shutter twenty or so times I noticed it had a 24 exposure roll of film in it ... a whole roll of shots of the floor! 😱

 

[coelacanth]

In the spring, I was loading a Neopan 400 (discontinued now) to my Mamiya 7. I was holding the tab and trying to put the roll to the camera. The roll slipped out from my left hand (it was before the first cupajoe), unrolled itself till it hit the floor. 😱

120 film is quite short when you unroll it. I dumped the roll and loaded another one, but I also wanted to dump myself into the green bin and call it a day. :bang::bang:

 

[kdemas]

I was dry firing the shutter of a camera that hadn't been exercised for a while ... good habit I'm told!

As I put it down after firing the shutter twenty or so times I noticed it had a 24 exposure roll of film in it ... a whole roll of shots of the floor! 😱

OK, that made me chuckle! I've done that with a few frames myself, until I saw that darn little rewind knob turning!

With my faux pas it was even more stupid than I'm letting on. I had an 8Gig card ready for my M8 and I grabbed the M that was on the desk in front of me, undid the bottom plate and....no card slot???

Whoops, I had shot my M7 with the RFF gang the day before. Those bodies look more alike at a rushed glance than you might think ;-)

 

[Keith]

In the spring, I was loading a Neopan 400 (discontinued now) to my Mamiya 7. I was holding the tab and trying to put the roll to the camera. The roll slipped out from my left hand (it was before the first cupajoe), unrolled itself till it hit the floor. 😱

120 film is quite short when you unroll it. I dumped the roll and loaded another one, but I also wanted to dump myself into the green bin and call it a day. :bang::bang:

I just played this scene out in my mind! LOL

I have the habit of not breaking the tab until I have the film spool locked into the camera for this very reason ... thanks for reminding me why I do this. 😀

 

[SolaresLarrave]

A friend lent me his Mamiya 645 Pro with an 80mm lens, and I decided to load some of my 120 film on it and burn it. My wife was in a very good mood that day, so I went through the 12 exposures photographing her...

I finished the roll, detached the 120 back and was going to take the film out when it kinda sprang out of its own: I saw than that I had loaded it backwards and photographed my beautiful wife exposing the paper backing, not the film.

 

[Leigh Youdale]

I was given two rolls of Portra 400VC by a friend who is a professional and had switched to digital. "Been in the fridge, unused - don't know how old it is". Leaders in full view but cartridges bare of outer packaging.
Took them both to Broome for a holiday last week. On return, found that the generous donor had shot a wedding on them and I had loaded and double exposed the films! Holiday pics ruined! Obviously they'd forgotten.
Moral - don't accept donated film unless it's still sealed in the box and the expiry date is visible.

 

[pachuco]

I started shooting a photo essay with the lens cap still on my Leica. The subject of my essay asked "aren't you suppose to take the lens cap off?" and I just about died. That was the first and last time I ever used a lens cap on a rangefinder.

 

[kdemas]

I started shooting a photo essay with the lens cap still on my Leica. The subject of my essay asked "aren't you suppose to take the lens cap off?" and I just about died. That was the first and last time I ever used a lens cap on a rangefinder.

Ha! Love that (yeah, I've done that as well). You're right...once you do it the cap is history once you're out to shoot.

 

[srtiwari]

One day I saw the weather change, and ran out with my M2 to shoot off a few frames, before the clouds changed the light again. Happily shooting off about 10 frames, I remembered I had not checked the rewind knob in my hurry. The next frame winding confirmed my fear that there was no film in the camera- I had finished and removed a roll the night before, planning to load another the next, and had not done so !

 

[robert blu]

Last july I shoot 10 rolls of K64 in Arles. When back home I shipped them but one was missing. I had the envelop but no film. I look for it everywhere, in my photo bags, in the other bags, in the car, I phone the hotel to ask if they had found one (of course no), I checked all the pocket of jeans and jacket, I rechecked everything: no trace. A couple of week later on vacation I wanted to take some picture and opened the m7 to put a film in it and what did I find ? My "lost" Kodachrome film ! Thanks to God I'm used to rewind the film soon each time I finish it, so no damage !
robert, getting old and forgetting too much...

 

[Mr_Flibble]

I hate it when I forget that I'm using a camera without double-exposure protection (like an Argus A or C-3), especially after I've used a camera with one. The first roll usually has a couple of double and triple exposures, yipe!
Routine is everything!

Lens caps! An evil necessity...grrr.

 

[blindlemon]

Became the proud owner of a crown graphic, loaded a 120 roll film holder and set forth to take some landscape shots at Carn Galver, the highest point in West Cornwall on the hottest August day for years. Returned to the car tired and sweaty, realized I had shot the whole spool without removing the dark slide so had not exposed a single frame.

 

[TheHub]

Not checking a roll of film with the leader sticking out, putting said film into a camera and shooting all day, developing it and discovering a whole roll of 2x exposures ...

 

[Alpacaman]

#$%&ing losing my #$&@ing leader inside the %$&#ing canister.

 

[robert blu]

Alpacaman reminds me that one other problem I had last summer was by mistake to re-wind too much one of my KR64 and now all the unexposed film is inside the canister with no leader outside. Nor sure how to open and close the canister withou damaging it.

robert, getting old and making mistakes...