Just by happenstance I googled the name of one of the new Think Tank Retrspective bags that Think Tank is now offering- Neat bags. I clicked on a link- it took me to Ken Rockwell's site where he proudly displayed the largest and most up to date Nikon Digicam that the bag will hold...I thought "Awww...isnt that cute" I continue to scroll down to find an image of a Nikon F5 inside the bag.. Most likely as an effort to show that the bag will work with whatever you shoot with- Yay versatility.
The F5 he shown is in just out of the box new condition...I am amazed! I dont even remember when mine looked that good, I've tried killing them enough times by falling down muddy slopes, into rivers, zip-lining in the Appalachian forests, not to mention their main purpose as tools to ply my trade as a wedding and portrait photographer. They are pretty well used- Brassing, dings, cracked back LCD panel (See above mentioned Zip-Lining) and replaced several times over the pc and remote cable screw on caps...man I hate buying those.
I turn on the camera and on cracked rear LCD panel it reads "DX 640." Thats strange...that doesnt make sense... Looking in the film window its a left over roll from a wedding I shot in Chicago last weekend...but I dont have any DX coded 640 film... All I had was 400ISO film..OOPS!
Underexposure or not- The negs will hold up fine, Im sure. But what I was wondering- And yes here is finally the question part-
Has this happened before? Mislabeled film canisters and/or malfunctioning camera that gets DX Coding wrong? I rewound the film- loaded a horribly expired roll of 160T (this stuff is nasty when its processed, I wont miss it a bit) and checked again and all was fine. Reloaded the partially shot roll and it comes up back at its true iso- 400. What happened?
The F5 he shown is in just out of the box new condition...I am amazed! I dont even remember when mine looked that good, I've tried killing them enough times by falling down muddy slopes, into rivers, zip-lining in the Appalachian forests, not to mention their main purpose as tools to ply my trade as a wedding and portrait photographer. They are pretty well used- Brassing, dings, cracked back LCD panel (See above mentioned Zip-Lining) and replaced several times over the pc and remote cable screw on caps...man I hate buying those.
I turn on the camera and on cracked rear LCD panel it reads "DX 640." Thats strange...that doesnt make sense... Looking in the film window its a left over roll from a wedding I shot in Chicago last weekend...but I dont have any DX coded 640 film... All I had was 400ISO film..OOPS!
Underexposure or not- The negs will hold up fine, Im sure. But what I was wondering- And yes here is finally the question part-
Has this happened before? Mislabeled film canisters and/or malfunctioning camera that gets DX Coding wrong? I rewound the film- loaded a horribly expired roll of 160T (this stuff is nasty when its processed, I wont miss it a bit) and checked again and all was fine. Reloaded the partially shot roll and it comes up back at its true iso- 400. What happened?
