The Dangers of Camera Hopping...

[Steve M.]

I've shot quite a bit of imaginary film in my life (the processing is cheap), as well as the half a roll w/ the lens cap on. My last "creative" photography adventure came from an ill advised attempt to cut costs by using one roll of film in several cameras just to see if they worked right. Somehow I mis counted the frames and ended up w/ these, which I rather like.

 

[PatrickONeill]

Another win for digital ... 😉

ever have a "no memory card" moment? 😉

 

[ItsReallyDarren]

Kent,

Funny you asked this question today. Today of all days has been the first time in over two years in which I opened the bottom cover to remove the film .... only to see a fully wound roll of film shining my reflection right back at me. After a scramble to reattach the bottom cover the flashbacks of how I came to this situation plays out in my head.
-flash-
A nice day out shooting, strong clouds and rays of light beaming through the clouds. An enjoyable walk and a few rolls go by, I say to myself I can't wait to see how the slides will turn out. Then the clouds turn darker and move closer. Small drops of rain begin to fall followed by larger and faster raindrops. I finish up the last two shots and start heading back.
-flash-
I flip the lever and begin to wind the film, only two turns of the knob and my phone rings. Turns out to be a very good friend who I haven't spoken to for months. I spend the entire time walking back to my car talking and laughing with my friend. It was a good 20 minute walk with increasing rains when I finally made it back to the shelter of my car where we continue our phone conversation. I toss the bag in the passenger seat followed by my M2. We finish our talk and say our goodbyes, I start the car and drive back home.
-flash-
Now I'm standing here holding my camera rewinding the film after I just fried the end of the roll. boy do i feel dumb

 

[andydg]

Not always,

Not always,

Another win for digital ... 😉

Prior to going back to film, I had made the mistake of taking my digital camera out and shooting without having a CF card installed. (changed the setting to allow shooting without a card.....grrr)

Happened more than once. Doh!:bang::bang:

 

[af_]

I've spent hours in the summer heat carrying my Mamiya RB67 with two lenses and a heavy tripod, shooting landscapes very carefully (meter, composition, level, etc.).
After developing the films myself, I found out that I must have inserted them the wrong way, with the paper facing the lens (120 film). 😱

 

[LKeithR]

It is so sad, but I have made every one of the mistakes listed above except not correcting for a filter factor. I've: opened a camera to load film while it had film in it, shot with no film, shot at the wrong ISO, clicked the shutter not realizing there was film in the camera, loaded the film improperly so I got a blank roll, and did not rewind the film all the way before opening the back...

Having shot film since the late fifties/early sixties I must confess that all of these ills have befallen me--some more than once.

But, a friend of mine accidentally deleted all the pictures off his compact flash from his digital camera, so there are drawbacks with digital, too.

I thought digital would save me from all the aforementioned problems but I've had a few digital "incidents" as well. Alas, no medium can fully protect us from ourselves...

 

[photokalia]

Yeah after long sessions on the 135 I have had 120 film loading mishaps, last time I loaded the roll backwards 😀 got some fun results though

I have the same problem! I shoot 90% with my M6, and occasionally use my Hassy. I can't count the number of times I ended up with the roll of 120 coming out with the black paper backing side on the outside, and the coloured backing on the inside. At least I had the sense to respool the roll in the dark bag after this happened a few times instead of throwing the roll away...

I've also ended up shooting T-Max 400 at ISO 64 before, thinking it was Ektar... I then forgot to mark the roll and it got developed normally. The images were a bit overexposed, but still usable. I wish the M6 had a holder for end of the film box so I would remember what I had in the camera.

 

[kdemas]

Now I'm standing here holding my camera rewinding the film after I just fried the end of the roll. boy do i feel dumb

Too funny Darren, you just have to laugh! I did the same thing as you with one of my last rolls of Kodachrome. Sent it in anyway and maybe 5 or 6 frames were recoverable.

 

[Sam N]

My worst offense involved precious Kodachrome.

I had shot a roll sometime in late 2009 with an EOS A2 which I'd set up to leave the leader hanging out after rewinding the film (to make it easier to process my black and white). I left the roll laying around for about a year until the recent Kodachrome rush. Seeing the leader sticking out, I assumed it was unexposed film, so I loaded it into my ZI and shot another roll.

I got the film back uncut from Dwayne's with a bunch of slide mounts in the envelope. It'd been less bad if the 2 sets of exposures were lined up, but they ended up being exactly 1/2 a frame off from one another. There were plenty of good shots on both runs through as well. D'oh.

As for shooting without film, all of my cameras have working film counters (even the toy cameras and the Russian!) or red windows so it hasn't yet been a problem. After the first time I mis-loaded 35mm film, I started checking the wind knob every time.