Load Error

Load Error

I thought this was just an abstract photo until I saw your thread.

The film is taped to the paper backing near the first frame, and then the paper pulls the film along as it winds on to the takeup spool, so something had to go seriously wrong for this to happen.

So, did you have the new spool on the feed side, and an empty spool on the takeup side, and was the paper leader threaded into the takeup spool, so that the black side of the paper would be facing the lens, when the back was installed on the camera?

The film has two big arrows on the backing paper to indicate the start point. I don't know how this works in a Hassy back, but every modern MF camera or back (except for those that use the red window as a frame counter) has some kind of indicator--two dots, two small arrows, a cutout in the pressure plate where you can see the arrows, etc.--that shows where to advance the film to before closing the back. I don't think that was the problem here, but that's something else you need to know.

When you finish the roll, you just continue to crank the film after the last frame until it's all wound onto the takeup spool, and then you remove it and tape the spool tightly with the attached adhesive strip. Then you move the old feed spool to the takeup side and load a new roll.
 

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Member Album by Robland
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Device
NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D3
Aperture
ƒ/2.8
Focal length
70.0 mm
Exposure time
1/125 second(s)
ISO
400
Filename
load_error.jpg
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45.7 KB
Date taken
Sat, 25 October 2008 3:43 PM
Dimensions
640px x 426px

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