Defective Film Cannister

[Steve Bellayr]

Has anyone ever experienced this? My wife was shooting with a Yashica GSN and when she advanced the film after what was to be the last shot, instead of the advance lever stopping, the film came out of the cannister completely onto the take up reel of the camera. Apparently the film was not attached to the spool in the cannister. I have shot thousands of roll of film and never experienced this problem.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Dear Steve,

I've heard of it, but never experienced it with a factory loaded cassette. Let's assume we have both shot 10,000 rolls (I suspect that's conservative). This makes a 1-in-20,000-cassette failure rate = 0.005%. Not too bad, really...

Cheers,

R.

 

[rogue_designer]

Never run into that with a factory roll. Odd.

 

[kmerenkov]

Happened once or twice to me on Smena-8M, but that's because I wasn't gentle enough.

 

[erikhaugsby]

I've torn the tape on bulk-loaded rolls, but never have I seen a factory-packaged roll behave like this. What does the very end of the film strip (that would have been connected to the canister's spool) look like?

 

[Steve Bellayr]

My wife advises me that she did not see any evidence of anything attached to the film. FYI it was Fuji film ASA 200. Oh well.

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

It has happened to me. I didn't develop at home at that time, and just brought the camera (a GSN, in fact!) to the supermarket and had them remove the film in their lightproof box. I believe it was a roll of Kodak UC400.

 

[dmr]

Here's the thread explaining how I recovered from it:

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32334

 

[Keith]

I had this happen with a little Rollei 35 ... when I took the camera to the lab and explained what had happened they pointed me in the direction of their darkroom and gave me a black bag to put the film in after I removed it from the camera.

 

[sepiareverb]

Are the Fuji films taped or punched and fit onto a barbed spool? Not remembering...

 

[Steve Bellayr]

Sorry, I can't answer the above question as it did not happen to me but to my wife and she discarded the film. She did not inspect it prior to discarding it.