Filmwasters
Which Board? => Photo Essays => Topic started by: Verian on February 03, 2014, 02:45:44 PM
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How to slightly damage an otherwise good film.
Firstly, let me make it perfectly clear that I am not an idiot, this, however, does not preclude me from occasionally doing things that can reasonably be regarded as idiotic. I have, on many occasions, had to retrieve a film leader from a canister and, on every occasion have not really had a problem, the tool works very well.
Yesterday I had what I believe is now commonly referred to as a brain fart and, having inserted the film retriever into the canister, I merrily wound the film clockwise, not once, not twice, but repeatedly until I heard a crunch that I really shouldn’t have heard.
At no point did it occur to me that I was doing anything wrong and I later apologised to my film retriever for ever doubting it. Such was the ferocity of my brain fart that I had to go and watch a youtube video before realising that I should be winding the film counter clockwise. Ten seconds later I had retrieved the film, but, as I was to discover upon developing it, not without cost, to the film itself of course, but also to my self-imposed status as a not-idiot. The evidence is beginning to stack up against me and I may have to re-assess.
Here are some of the pictures, please enjoy the faded lines, it took a lot of effort to get them there.
(http://verianthomas.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img700.jpg)
(http://verianthomas.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img696.jpg)
(http://verianthomas.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img714.jpg)
(http://verianthomas.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img701.jpg)
(http://verianthomas.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img717.jpg)
These were taken in Birmingham with the Leica Z2X and 24 frames of Ilford HP5 (although I had thought I’d loaded a 36 – Shut up, I know what you’re thinking!).
More at link in sig.
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I never rewind them fully so i dont have to use a retrieval tool
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With some of my cameras you have no choice :(
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Shut up, I know what you’re thinking!).
I didn't say anything, but I agree with some of your statements :-D
Btw, I gave up using cameras that don't leave the film leader outside. I wasted (in the wrong sense) a lot of films and time and some money with all these dumb p+s cams. Not a Mju II, a Yashica T4/T5 or a Mini-Leica I-II-III could tempt me anymore.
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When I was developing my own, I had mixed results with the proprietary branded film leader retrieval tool. Sometimes it was just infuriating. A changing bag and a flip-top bottle opener to prise the top off the film canister is the low-tech option, of course, but I've never known it fail. Very frustrating. I feel for your loss........
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Retriever tools are a pain in the donkey, but I often had good luck just asking in any photo lab or supermarket with a dev station for them to extract the leader for me. I don't know what the device is but it does it in about a second and they never mind.
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Shut up, I know what you’re thinking!).
I didn't say anything, but I agree with some of your statements :-D
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I'm normally fine with it, on this day though, my brain had turned to mush!
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When I was developing my own, I had mixed results with the proprietary branded film leader retrieval tool. Sometimes it was just infuriating. A changing bag and a flip-top bottle opener to prise the top off the film canister is the low-tech option, of course, but I've never known it fail. Very frustrating. I feel for your loss........
About the first ten films were an absolute nightmare because I didn't know you had to listen for a click (this was because it typically manly fashion I persevered without actually reading any instructions!), after that it has been mostly plain sailing.
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Retriever tools are a pain in the donkey, but I often had good luck just asking in any photo lab or supermarket with a dev station for them to extract the leader for me. I don't know what the device is but it does it in about a second and they never mind.
Good idea, but that's a 20 mile round trip for me. I'll just have to remember to set my idiot switch to 'OFF' before I start!
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I used to have an EOS 5 which could be set to leave the leader out or wind it in
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I don't reuse canisters so I opt to just ripping them open. I used to try to pop the tops off to save the canister but don't really care about that anymore.
Most of the time I bulk load now with my own reusable canisters so no need to force them open anymore.