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.
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.
