Does anyone rewind partially exposed rolls in order to switch film?

[Carterofmars]

Thanks for the feedback. Appreciated!

 

[wiltw]

I used to switch mid-roll a lot, when I was shooting in high school. I was Photography Editor of my HS newspaper, I was also on the yearbook staff so shot lots of photos for use in the yearbook, so I would switch rolls to keep B&W photos for those two uses segregated from one another. And I had a variety of professional engagements outside of school, entailing color film or B&W film assignments. Most of my remove-and-reload entailed rolls shot for newspaper and yearbook, as the outside engagements simply would be shoot-and-process at end of job. When I removed mid-roll, I would use a permanent marker to write the total number of exposures taken on the roll, so I knew how far to advance the film before taking a new exposure.
Of course, not having a camera body with autorewind is essential; and manual insertion of the leader into the takeup- before winding to a repeatable point is also handy. but you can deal with lack of repeatability by mere advancing one more frame from last shot taken.

 

[CMoore]

Does anyone rewind partially exposed rolls in order to switch film?
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I'm very interested in experiences, opinions, and thoughts.

I just loaded this new addition with some expired Tri-x.

I have done it several times for various reasons. I just mark the frame number when it comes out and then go 2 frames past that when i reload it.

 

[Nicholas Lindan]

Hmmm, that's a neat feature on that Zeiss/Voigtlander/Vitesse - hold the shutter down and crank away until you get to the right frame.

Features like that pop up and then disappear from the lingua franca of camera design.

I wonder if they didn't design the camera, found it behaved in that fashion, and then decided it "wasn't a bug but a feature" ((c) IBM 1957) and left it.

 

[Terrence Brennan]

My Dad was Customer Service manager at a Kodak Canada Kodachrome lab between the 1960s and 1980s. He used to say that when customers did this it used to drive the operators of the semi-automatic slide mounting machines absolutely crazy!
They had a pre-printed form explaining why the film returned to the customer had at least one slide cut in pieces.
It was probably the same for a lot of mini-lab operators.

I saw that in a number of labs I worked in in the 1970s and 1980s. Anytime I removed and reloaded a roll of 35mm transparancy film, I would always attach a note to outline what I had done, and I never had a problem.

 

[Huss]

My problem is I shoot a few shots then the film sits for months on end and then passes its expiration date.

Don't worry, it's not like milk.

 

[CMoore]

Don't worry, it's not like milk.