Nikon F5 "End" at 18 on a 36 exp roll

[Jacob Delaney]

I was at Disney World today and for my last picture of the day I took a picture of Main Street and at only 18 pictures the camera said "End" in the LCD. Since that was my last picture I was going to take I left the film in the camera and thought I would ask if there's anything I can do to bypass it somehow. I was shooting Velvia 50 and it's my last roll so I don't want to waste it.

Edit: I should note that this is a brand new F5 with only about 5-10 previous rolls used.

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[ic-racer]

Custom #12 maybe?

 

[MartinCrabtree]

Could be a snag inside the cassette. Rewind it manually and stop before the end enters the cassette. Open up and reload the roll. Keep the lens covered and shoot up to 18. Try and proceed from there and see what happens.

As far as I know #12 can only be set to 35 or 36 not to mention he's run a few rolls through it already.

 

[Chan Tran]

Could be a snag inside the cassette. Rewind it manually and stop before the end enters the cassette. Open up and reload the roll. Keep the lens covered and shoot up to 18. Try and proceed from there and see what happens.

As far as I know #12 can only be set to 35 or 36 not to mention he's run a few rolls through it already.

I this case I much rather lose the rest of the blank film than risk losing the exposed frames. I think the film is jam some how and trying to proceed could damage the film.

 

[MartinCrabtree]

Yes you've got a point there. How was the film stored? Condensation can make emulsion soft and sticky.

 

[zanxion72]

Turn on the camera and take out the batteries. Turn it off and put the batteries back. It had happened to me once with own rolled film and this had it resolved. Latter I had noticed that this was happening with films I had loaded by myself to cassettes and it was a bit harder to pull the film out of the cassette. My F5 was randomly firing end on the lcd with these.