Bad roll

[rossawilson1]

..I don't mean damaged negative etc but a bunch of shots you think you'd get a few keepers from turns out to be all rubbish.. always seems to devastate me.. how about you guys?

 

[Alexander Ghaffari]

The way I figure it is that, relatively speaking, film is cheap (well, everything besides false-color infrared film), but the missed opportunity for a once-in-a-lifetime shot because one chose not to take a picture is devastating.

 

[Claire Senft]

Are you kidding? Hell's belles, I run my negatives right from the wash thru the shredder. Since I have started this practice my paper costs are $zero. Hows that for economy?

 

[mtjade2007]

A high percentage of rubbish of mine were caused by bad film processing. Many of them were marginal returned from cheap labs. Many of them were ruined by myself trying to save chemical cost spent on my Jobo processor. But when the processing was well done very high percentage of frames were keepers. So to me I really had no problems with bad rolls (including expired rolls). The majority of problems for me were film processing.

 

[michaelbsc]

Not me buddy. Everything I shoot is perfect, just perfect. That's why my portfolio is so large. If you give me a minute I'll get it out of my wallet and show you.

 

[Anscojohn]

My mentor, back in the early 1960s, told me if that if one shot on a roll was worth printing, it was a good roll. Of course, at that time I thought this was foolishness since ALL of MY shots were worth printing!! I think I am beginning to understand what he meant.