The Second Rule Of Photography.

ChristopherCoy

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The first can be found here: https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/the-first-rule-of-photography.183189/

but the second rule of photography is make sure you have film in the camera.

Spent three hours riding up and down the beach taking some very nice photos. Panic didn’t set in until I hit 40 on the counter. Panic solidified when there wasn’t any resistance on the rewind knob. Opened it and realized I shot an entire roll of 36exp TriX....without the TriX.

and there was a whole series of a little boy surf fishing in his cowboy hat too. I’m so disappointed!
 

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I think you have the rules in the wrong order .
You aren't the first, and you won't be the last.
Sort of makes it easier to understand why126, 110 and disc film cameras exist, doesn't it?
 

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Welcome to the club! I did that last year with my Nikon F. I was getting pretty creative, too. That's one thing about the newer film cameras with the rear window I like!

The F100 has one, as does the N80. I went on my first date today with the F100. I really like that camera.
 

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I would never admit in public that I’ve done the same once.
 

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The rule is: Pay attention to the rewind lever - if it isn't moving, the film isn't (plus or minus for some slack).

Cure: After advancing the film to #1, take up the slack with the rewind knob.
 

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I'm sorry to hear about that, Christopher.
I hope you can enjoy going there again soon.
It's amazing those things happen to some of us sometimes.
 

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I just did the same for some mothers day pictures with the blad. By all accounts it had a fresh roll of e100 on exposure one. I had a good feeling there was nothing in the camera from easiness of winding the advance. I was about 100% sure there was nothing in the camera by the end. Good thing i also has the graflex out there and got the pictures on 4x5 hp5+ also.
 

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Or...

You can remember to load your rangefinder with TriX, spend the afternoon wandering around the city shooting...

...and realize at the end that you forgot to take the cap off the lens.

Yup. Just did that.
 

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Think of how much you’ve saved on chemistry.
 

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where cameras have rewind knobs - always take up the slack and verify. In the past I have been known to rest a finger gently on the knob tobe sure it is moving
the Canon EOS ones will give a indication without a frame number if they are not feeding film. (or flash the cassette icon.)

worst camera I have is the Pentax SZ-1 it shows one cassette if their is a film in the camera, and the frame counter counts, BUT if the second cassette icon is not showing, the film is not loaded right. needless to say, I seldom grab that one.
 

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The closest that I came to shooting without a roll was when I got my F3P and a FG with motor drive, loaded film in the FG, had the winder on, zipped to frame 1, shot until I was well past 36, check, the film had not caught and did not advance. If I had loaded without the drive I would have likely notice the rewind crank was not moving.
 

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You will do it again. Ask me how I know.

First time I remember doing it was years ago. I was near the Great Sand Dunes and there was a frozen waterfall, Zapata Falls. I decided to hike to it, half mile. Got there, battery was dead. Hiked back, got a new battery and back to the waterfall. Started shooting and you guessed it, no film. Hiked back...

Another time I was super stoked to be up on Mount Tamalpais outside SanFran, early in the morning, and the fog was insane! Got so excited I forgot to put film in the camera. After shooting for maybe an hour I started to realize that I hadn't changed film... Of course the fog was dying by then.

You'll probably do it again at some point. Just laugh about it. Nothing else you can do....
 

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If it makes you feel any better, the last digital photos that were taken of me had to be retaken, because the resulting files were corrupted, and couldn't be read by the dentist's computer/card reader.

(picture that smile with a tooth that needs to have a broken crown replaced)
 

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First outing with 5x12 forgot to pull the dark slide. Realized as I packed up everything since the slide locks were still in place. At this point you are asking yourself is it worth the 15-30 minutes to set it all up again. I have also grabbed the stack of 4x5 film holders without film and not realized it until I got to my destination. Now I mark and label the holder with blue tape as soon as I put film in them.
 

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did the same thing this weekend. Caught it by frame 4 luckily, but still it happens to us all at least once.
 

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When I sold cameras, one camera store I worked for had a policy not to show people how to load the camera so that they had to read the manual at home. Always check the rewind for tension when at the beginning of the roll. The best photographs are taken without film or with the lens cap one, since they are always perfect in our minds.
 

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I make myself go through a mental ck list every time I load film into a camera, and every time I head out the door w/ it, so this hasn't happened for a long time. It basically can't happen on my N70. which auto advances the film reliably after loading it and always shows a big "1" on the top LCD screen. Before the film loading it showed a big, blinking "E", so it's pretty difficult to go a-shooting w/o the film being on the take up spool. Only the Leicaflex could do this to me (notice that I blame the camera as the guilty party, not me).
 

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I developed 4 rolls over the weekend. One of them was blank. Is rule #3 "Don't develop film you haven't exposed"?
 
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