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When was the last time you screwed up ...

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!
 
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...
 

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. )
 
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.
 
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.
 
railwayman3 said:
Could you have checked the appearance of the leader with a known film ? )
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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.
 
Army35mm said:
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.
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Which Miniolta? The SRT versions will be fine with an older flash.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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)
 
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.
 
Are we supposed to make our report daily or is weekly sufficient?
 
made the mistake of coating too much cyanotype paper
used most of it, but just found the rest of it, its dark blue
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
What time is it? 'Has to have been a few min. or so.
 
pdeeh said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
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!)
 
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