Reloading "exposed" film into Rolleiflex 2.8F

[hiroh]

I opened the camera and realized that the film with 0 shots is inside, that I put a month ago. I had to shoot something important, so I put the cap on and shot 12 shots. I pulled out the film from the camera as I normally do, and kept it safe in the dark.

Now, I want to do some tests with my camera, and I though I can use that roll, but I'm not sure, how am I loading it now? Is it the same as I'd load the unexposed film?

This never happened to me before, so I want to check to be sure, because the last shot is now first, but I guess it doesn't matter.

 

[ic-racer]

When you roll it back in the dark to the other spool by hand, you will need to lift the tape and re-tape it, otherwise the film will buckle. Ilford and Kodak 120, this works fine. I don't know about the tape/paper combination on other films. That is, if the tape comes off the paper easily and re-sticks.

 

[hiroh]

Thanks

 

[MattKing]

For clarity, and I think you may already realize this, it is highly advisable that the film + backing paper be manually rewound back off the take-up spool it currently is on, and on to a new feed spool.
Once you do that - following ic-racer's excellent suggestions of course - the film plus backing paper are again ready to move forward. The tape will be in the right place - pulling rather than pushing the film - and the numbering on the backing paper will again be correct.

 

[Slixtiesix]

I would rather try that with a less expensive camera!

 

[ic-racer]

I would rather try that with a less expensive camera!

The re-spooling is done by hand, outside the camera. Once re-spooled so there is no buckle, the film + tape should be fine to go through the "automat" sensor rollers of the Rolleiflex.
BTW, this is the same process used to re-spool 120 to 620 spools, though both spoolings are usually done outside a camera (whereas the OP did the first spooling in his camera).

Don't try to re-spool with a camera. I actually did this once in the 1980s with my Rolleiflex SLX. Of course the buckled film jammed, though the fuse did not blow...a gear in the camera broke. Fortunately the USA Rollieflex center was still repairing and updating the SLX, so I got new gears and an updated circuit board (probably because they had a stock of the upgrade boards to get rid of).

 

[Dan Daniel]

Other than the respooling issues mentioned, I am wondering if it a good idea to run a roll that loaded and then you opened the back while it was at the first frame. Maybe it'd be better to just wind this roll back and put it in the drawer as a test roll? The risk of fogging and such is real.