A camera as a stress toy?

[lxmike]

Unfortunately accidents can occur in that situation. I expect when the Tri-X is developed from my M2 I am going to have a whole run of clear strips from exercising the shutter in a half case with a lens cap on, not realising that it was more than just air I was winding on. Hopefully I will be wrong about that....I can't believe I could do that, but I also don't recall how the shutter count got to over 20 so quickly. Too many cameras.

😱😱hope it works out

 

[Robert Lai]

I think we've all occasionally opened up what we thought was an empty camera, only to find a roll of film on the take-up spool.
In such circumstances, the proper thing to do is to tear the film out in a rage and curse at the world. There is no point trying to save any images on the roll. Remember, most of them were taken at up to 1/1000 shutter speeds. So, the amount of time it took you to realize that there was film there has made all of it light struck. I used to try to develop these in some vain hope, but it's all a pointless waste of money.

So, even when fidgeting, I open the red window on my medium format cameras to see if there is film inside. With 35mm cameras, I usually turn the rewind to see if I feel resistance from film inside.

 

[ColSebastianMoran]

Shooting frame after frame in a supposedly empty camera is as nice as opening a camera to watch the shutter work and to find out that there is a film in it;-(

I make a point of watching to see if the rewind knob turns. Or check it for tension. Back when there were rewind knobs.

 

[daveleo]

I fidget with cameras and lenses constantly, and it definitely has a narcotic effect on me. The shutter counts on my cameras far far exceeds the number of pictures stored on my computer, as I snap away / delete / switch lenses / snap away / delete etc etc

Glad to hear that there are other fidgeters out there 🙂

 

[Contarama]

Sometimes I walk around with an empty F2 and make snaps as if it were loaded. Sort of weird and I dont know why I do it but I do.

 

[nikon_sam]

I've been carrying a camera around since 1976...I have them all around me in our house...
I love the way they feel, sound, look and work...I don't think a day goes by without me holding one of them...and I don't find that weird...

 

[Arbitrarium]

Yeah, sometimes I'll be sat on the sofa watching TV with a camera in my lap like a pet. Agree entirely with you.

 

[Arbitrarium]

I think we've all occasionally opened up what we thought was an empty camera, only to find a roll of film on the take-up spool.
In such circumstances, the proper thing to do is to tear the film out in a rage and curse at the world. There is no point trying to save any images on the roll. Remember, most of them were taken at up to 1/1000 shutter speeds. So, the amount of time it took you to realize that there was film there has made all of it light struck. I used to try to develop these in some vain hope, but it's all a pointless waste of money.

On a recent holiday I rewound a half frame Yashica Mimy but never heard the film 'click' off the take up spool. Thought I must have just missed it, opened the back and there was the film, broken out of the canister. Luckily I was in a dark room, closed the back immediately. Rewound into an empty canister in a changing bag and had it developed. Only lost a couple of shots and the next few were very grainy but saved the majority. Probably helped that it was 100 speed film B&W.