Silly Mistakes

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wlewisiii

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You know the kind.

Yesterday my 3 year old was playing in the sprinkler behind the house, so I grabbed the Speed and took 8 shots over the course of the afternoon. Blew one of them in the holder forgetting to close the shutter. Again. :bang: but got 7 possibles.

So I'm developing them 2 at a time in D-76. Only I misread my glass thermometer as saying 18 degrees rather than the 24 degrees it really was. 9 1/2 minutes vs 5 1/2 minutes :eek: :bang: :bang: :bang:

I realized what I'd done as I was about to do the last one. So one good neg and 6 grossly overdeveloped ones.

Anyone else care to admit to anything similar?

William
 
I don't have any developing fiascos as I still haven't ventured there.. but I often do one of two things (sometimes both) to ensure that I don't lose my status as photographic idiot...

with my QL17 GIII, I store it with the aperture set at "A" with the assumption that it isn't constantly metering and wearing down the battery.. so when I'm walking around looking for that decisive moment, I frequently forget to turn it to "A", and in my rush not to miss an unexpected opportunity, I take a photo at whatever setting I left the shutter and aperture at

I often rely on the fact that the Canonet won't take a shot if the aperture is outside the range that would be coupled with my selected shutter speed so I don't pay much attention to my settings.. but of course that only works in "Auto" mode

and then there are the times that I forget to actually focus or remove the lens cap.. I'm sure nobody else ever does that
 
After ?I had just gotten back from my trip out west I was setting up to develop the first roll. The film I was developing was Pan F shot as rated and developed in DDX. I opened up the PDF file for Pan F to get the development time.... I read the wrong area and developed the film for pulling it to 25 speed. :bang: :bang: :bang:

The negatives are, of course, WEAK! It was a roll I shot while driving towards Nevada with allot of mountain shots. Oh well. I know better now and will be making up a quick reference guide for development times on all my favorite films.

Glenn
 
There's nothing like learning to shoot sheet film with a large format camera to keep you humble! Lots of opportunity to mess up!
 
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