36 exposures in 1 frame

[tuanvinh2000]

I guess most knows what happened. :bang:
I spent the whole weekend shooting the Chinese New Year Parade in Vancouver. Came home hope for some good pictures and all I saw was a blank roll of film. Almost threw it out but notice there is something in the first frame. Scan it out and saw all of my photos rolling in one :bang: Well life moves on to next roll of film.
And here is the photo:

 

[tuanvinh2000]

yes i thought i did advance my film everytime i shot, came home started to rewind. Then it took me 1 second to rewind, i was like "this is a bad feeling".
How i remember it is because i remembered the sign "Welcome to Vancouver" is the first frame i took, when some workers were taking it down. Then i saw dragon on top left and the scale of the dragon dance on the right hand side. I do remember how I composed. SAD 🙁

 

[Nikkor AIS]

Really interesting image..

Shooting film has gives us some interesting mistakes..

 

[thegman]

I must say, it's not without it's charms.

 

[Tom Harrell]

Have some wallpaper made out of it! That might be interesting!

 

[daveleo]

I do kind of like it !

But it is strange not to be an extremely overexposed negative ?

 

[sevo]

It would not be 36 stops overexposed, but a mere five stops over (the exposure obviously doubles at each double number of exposures, for a chain of 2-4-8-16-32) which is rather less outrageous - we all have done worse things when we forgot to set the time or aperture, and got a still somewhat recognizable result. The chaotic superimposition does more to making this image hard to decipher than the overexposure...

 

[Godfrey]

The overlapping bit and pieces of scenes are fascinating. I'd work on it some and draw it out into a large print.

An Oly XA did that to me once when its film transport failed. Long before digital image processing, wish I still had the neg.

G

 

[robklurfield]

Very interesting ... I like it. Could you do it again, at-will?

 

[tuanvinh2000]

most of the time i do check if the rewinder moves when i advance the film. But i have absolute trust on the M6 loading system, i thought it's quite fool proof and would always advance correctly.
I agree on the large scale you can see more (people's faces) but need a lot of redraw to make the details stand out. 🙂

 

[Laviolette]

Agree with the others, it's very interesting!

 

[Photo_Smith]

As you massively over expose film the density actually decreases slightly; you can see the effect known as 'black lightning' where the flash records with a lower density than the mid tones.
I think it happens when the grain saturates with electrons some 'recombination' takes place lessening effective density.
Interesting images though!

 

[hepcat]

Brilliant!!! It's more fetching than anything done by Jackson Pollock! Well done!😀

Although the M take-up spool systems (three types) are all good, none of them are foolproof. I learned years ago to take up all of the slack in the spool before I went off in search of images. Then watching the rewind knob move confirms for you that the leader is firmly attached to the spool.

 

[coelacanth]

Print it 30x20" and you've got yourself a great wall piece! 🙂

 

[mnmleung]

This is the film equivalent of a flight data recorder ... I love it !

I spent a week in Munich back in 1984 and took with me my brother's Minolta SLR. After the first few days, the film counter went beyond 38 ... sadly it was the first time I used the camera and I did not wind the film on properly. I did not have any frame to show for.

 

[dabick42]

@ tuanvinh ...

Many times I've purposely made multiple exposures on one frame and been intrigued by the unpredictability of the results, but never as many as 36 !

Your shot held my interest for a lot longer than did Gursky's $4.3 million ''masterpiece'', so that makes yours the better ''art'' in my opinion.

You never know, ''thirtysixing'' could be the next big thing in photography... (!)

 

[P3tr]

It happened to me TWICE during one week stay in Paris last year. This is on one of the two multiexposed frames.

 

[ampguy]

winding is highly overrated. Did you go to the zoo? I see a giraffe, and snake-skin in the image, and an elephant.

 

[Keith]

I see Elvis in the lower right of frame!

 

[CRod]

Same thing happened to me with my Lomo LC-A. Three frames in something jammed and broke the sprockets on the film. Ended up with this.

21 shots in total. Its kinda cool I think but it would of been nice to have some of the shots I took.