When was the last time you screwed up ...

[guangong]

Only tangentially related to film. Wife shoots digital. Captured great pics of various Floridian animals. Downloaded into computer. Somehow pressed wrong button. Gone! Long live film!

 

[GarageBoy]

Had a roll of e100gx inside my mamiya 7 - was trying to see if my batteries were still OK by half pressing the shutter button- click... Well, now I only have 9 shots of a discontinued film left...

Fed a partially shot film into my fe2- set shutter speed to 1/4000 - advanced the appropriate shots- forgot to turn it back...

 

[railwayman3]

August last year...I'd got back into bulk rolling B&W film rather than buying ready made, due to increased usage....I had some rolls of Fomapan 100 in a labelled baggy...and some rolls of HP5+ in another labelled baggy...I took them to Cornwall on holiday where I shot several of each but didn't label them or put them quickly enough back in a laballed bag. WHen I got home, I was unsure which was which.

Could you have checked the appearance of the leader with a known film ?
(Not trying to be clever in making that suggestion.....Before Christmas, I opened the back of a camera to load a film, and found the half-exposed film which was already inside. Not the first time I've done that, by a long way....my only weak excuse was that it was a test film loaded some months before, then never followed up to process at the time. The thought that it could have been my daughter's wedding pictures gives me a feeling of doom. )

 

[MrBrowning]

This morning. I ran a roll of Fomapan 200 through a Kiev 60 on my way to work. Never changed the meter from 50 to 200 and it being early it didn't occur to me.

 

[Marcelo Paniagua]

Yesterday, when developing 2 rolls Tri-X, I used fixer instead D-76. Obviously, film was ruined ; they where the New Year dinner photo's so a great loss.

Regards.

 

[Agulliver]

Could you have checked the appearance of the leader with a known film ? )

Oh I did sort it out, as the two films don't look exactly the same I made a guess based on leader appearance. But it freaked me at the time.

The films ripped off the spools of the bulk cassettes in the Vivitar were less easy...as I wanted to shoot more film in that camera and had no access to even a dark bag...I waited until night (very bright summer we had) and placed the whole lot in a black duffel bag which I could zip shut around my hands...placed a blanket over the top of my hands and the bag, and did all this in the car, away from lights. With both films I was able to respool back into the cassette for processing when I got home and there was only minimal fogging - on the first film where I wasn't sure what the heck had happened and I opened the back to see all the film on the takeup spool.

 

[M. Axel Wikstrom]

Every day. Woke up at a hotel this morning I realized the I left the toothbrush at home. Photography; recently tried to use old developer and ended up with blank film - oops.

 

[MattKing]

Pretty sure i killed the lightmeter in my Minolta with my vivitar 252 flash. Only recently I learned that this flash outputs like 250 volts, and pretty sure i fried something.

Which Miniolta? The SRT versions will be fine with an older flash.

 

[Army35mm]

X370s. It's an old bang around I bought at a goodwill for ten bucks, but it has a fast 50mm lens, so I'm just using it to photograph dimly lit, dirty, South Korean alleyways at night.

 

[Army35mm]

Also, it's my only SLR right now since I busted my yashica.

 

[Harry Stevens]

First time ever used a stainless steel tank and loaded TMAX 120 400 from the wrong side and badly crinkeld the negs, been praticing since.

 

[Helios 1984]

Sometime I forget to do my settings before firing the shutter, it's usually either aperture, shutter speed or both :-/ However, I do not consider it "screwing"...nah screwing is when you fail to correctly fasten your camera on the tripod and the whole thing end up crashing on the floor *facepalm (Them quick release systems meh)

 

[nosmok]

Processing fail: developed 4x5 pack film in my caffenol tri-x recipe. Only problem it was tri-x professional, the 320 not the 400. way underdeveloped. Vowed to remember to check next pack. I didn't.

 

[OptiKen]

Are we supposed to make our report daily or is weekly sufficient?

 

[removed account4]

made the mistake of coating too much cyanotype paper
used most of it, but just found the rest of it, its dark blue

 

[flash26c]

What time is it?

 

[pdeeh]

Here's a Top Tip:
When out photographing for the afternoon, don't leave your camera switched to multi-exposure and then fail to notice the fact that the film counter isn't moving every time you wind on.

 

[Army35mm]

Went to readjust my shoulder bag, didn't realize that I had left my bag unzipped, and accidentally threw my yashica electro 35 GTN down a flight of concrete stairs in a Korean subway.

 

[eddie]

I've had some screw ups which led to interesting things. In those cases, the real screw up was not remembering how I initially screwed up, making it difficult to repeat.

 

[Harry Stevens]

The screw up I fear most is exposing a new 30 meter bulk film roll while loading it into the loader......Changing bag and a darkroom fo me when loading.

 

[LAG]

What time is it?

Fantastic!

... screw ups which led to interesting things...

Here's one:

... leave your camera switched to multi-exposure and then fail to notice the fact that the film counter isn't moving every time you wind on

 

[HiHoSilver]

What time is it? 'Has to have been a few min. or so.

 

[fdonadio]

Here's a Top Tip:
When out photographing for the afternoon, don't leave your camera switched to multi-exposure and then fail to notice the fact that the film counter isn't moving every time you wind on.

Nikon cameras (the ones I used, anyways) force you to activate the multi-exposure switch every time you want to re-expose the same frame.

 

[removed-user-1]

Teaching a class on screen printing, and getting to the part where I demonstrate the correct way to use the squeegee on the screen, and doing it exactly the wrong way.

Twice.

 

[Vaughn]

This past weekend, I left my camera bag with my Rolleiflex, Luna Pro SBC and film at a friend's place down in the Bay Area. Also has my sunglasses in it. I feel a little lost...I might need to go out and use the 8x10...and I do have one roll of Acros 100 and my Ciro-Flex in case of emergency.

rthomas -- BTDT...always great to have an audience when one really screws up! I accidently tore my 11x14 neg in half in front of a class...and gave a carbon printing demo one time and I blew it with both examples -- no print to show!)