101 ways to ruin a roll of film

Sitting on a temple wall in Katmandu changing a completed roll and a monkey comes along, pinches it and then proceeds to strip out the whole lot.
 
FishyFish said:
That's a difficult one to beat!
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I told the Mrs about the monkeys being B................, she thought all monkeys were cute and cuddly.

Last time we went to India I took her into a Temple with a bag of fresh Roti..........Ha ha,

One of the wardens had to beat them off with a big stick. A big male was snarling at baring its teeth trying to get at them.

Now she knows......

:)
 
Kevin Allan said:
What did Holmes have to say?
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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? Or a modern ver:- for christs sake use that FP4 up, its been in the loader for about 40 years.o_O:oops: :$
 
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Another new-to-me cheap plastic P&S caught my attention and duly arrived. Looking quite good. it had motor wind and auto focus.
All seemed to be working well and as I didn't have a scrap test roll to hand to try the rewind function, went ahead and loaded up a part used roll.
The first dozen shots were from another super lightweight wide angle fixed everything, P&S which I had tried out on holiday.
The new cam went well and at the end of the film, it would not rewind. In the end, I had to open the camera back and pick out the film, loop by loop from the take-up spool.
Another lost film.
 
Cluster said:
The new cam went well and at the end of the film, it would not rewind. In the end, I had to open the camera back and pick out the film, loop by loop from the take-up spool.
Another lost film.
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The advantage of having a dark bag, even if you don't do your own dev!
 
I tried to extract it in my dark bag. The cam has one of those take-up spools that has a little tooth that engages the leader. It was all wound up on that, pushing the film further in the back, fast and slow didn't get it off.... or if it did, it will have re-engaged on the tooth. Picked it out in the light, loop by loop off the spool.
 
Oh that sounds so horribly frustrating!
 
I found an old APS camera with a film in situ in the cupboard. I completed the film, but whatever I tried, it would not eject and eventually I had to pretty much break the camera to get it out (they slide in like a battery rather than spool in a nice accessible way!). I didn't have a dark bag, but did it in a dark room, inside a well padded rucksack to minimise light, but it was do fiddly I think it was pretty much trashed when I finally extracted it...haven't managed to get it developed yet (no-one seems to touch APS cameras anymore), but I suspect my ministrations will have destroyed it anyway....
 
MelS said:
I found an old APS camera with a film in situ in the cupboard. I completed the film, but whatever I tried, it would not eject and eventually I had to pretty much break the camera to get it out (they slide in like a battery rather than spool in a nice accessible way!). I didn't have a dark bag, but did it in a dark room, inside a well padded rucksack to minimise light, but it was do fiddly I think it was pretty much trashed when I finally extracted it...haven't managed to get it developed yet (no-one seems to touch APS cameras anymore), but I suspect my ministrations will have destroyed it anyway....
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I had an email newsletter from https://mshobbies.co.uk/ 2 days ago.

They said they process APS (and also stating they have a selection of unused APS film whist noting that it was a min. of 18 years old) but for speed they are directing APS to https://www.apertureprinting.com/

(Whilst I've used MS Hobbies before I haven't come across Aperture before).
 
auntiemaryscanary said:
I had an email newsletter from https://mshobbies.co.uk/ 2 days ago.

They said they process APS (and also stating they have a selection of unused APS film whist noting that it was a min. of 18 years old) but for speed they are directing APS to https://www.apertureprinting.com/

(Whilst I've used MS Hobbies before I haven't come across Aperture before).
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Thanks for this - I will check them out. I would like to see if there is anything salvageable on the film, if possible, so good to know there are still potential options for getting it developed.
 
Maybe not quite runied, but weird at the time. Many years ago I made a Polalubitel, you graft the polarid camera onto a Lubitel (still have it up the attic) The idea being to get a 6x6 pola camera, I wanted it for testing lighting set-ups in the studio. (and was too tight to buy a pola back)

So with the help of a mate with a workshop we knocked this "camera" up, it actually looked pretty good.

So to test it I bunged in a pola film, shot of pic on my mates van and something hadnt worked, ok, so I shot another this time fine, then we started taking pics of each other. I took the first shot of my mate and got a pic of his van, what? He took one of me and got a pic of him..
It took use a few seconds to realsie we were a shot behind the camera.

Somehow, and I still dont really understand it, the camera took a pic, but gave us a blank shot at the start, I suspect I'd done something wrong loading the film.

Anyway, once we got got it figured out it worked really well.

It's actually pretty easy to do, more or less you remove the back of the Lubiten, and the lens and part of the front of the pola camera, and stick them together, with some filler and I think some bits of the back of the Lubitel to line up the cameras.
 
swanseamale47 said:
Maybe not quite runied, but weird at the time. Many years ago I made a Polalubitel, you graft the polarid camera onto a Lubitel (still have it up the attic) The idea being to get a 6x6 pola camera, I wanted it for testing lighting set-ups in the studio. (and was too tight to buy a pola back)

So with the help of a mate with a workshop we knocked this "camera" up, it actually looked pretty good.

So to test it I bunged in a pola film, shot of pic on my mates van and something hadnt worked, ok, so I shot another this time fine, then we started taking pics of each other. I took the first shot of my mate and got a pic of his van, what? He took one of me and got a pic of him..
It took use a few seconds to realsie we were a shot behind the camera.

Somehow, and I still dont really understand it, the camera took a pic, but gave us a blank shot at the start, I suspect I'd done something wrong loading the film.

Anyway, once we got got it figured out it worked really well.

It's actually pretty easy to do, more or less you remove the back of the Lubiten, and the lens and part of the front of the pola camera, and stick them together, with some filler and I think some bits of the back of the Lubitel to line up the cameras.
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Are you still waiting for the final photo?
 
swanseamale47 said:
Maybe not quite runied, but weird at the time. Many years ago I made a Polalubitel, you graft the polarid camera onto a Lubitel (still have it up the attic) The idea being to get a 6x6 pola camera, I wanted it for testing lighting set-ups in the studio. (and was too tight to buy a pola back)

So with the help of a mate with a workshop we knocked this "camera" up, it actually looked pretty good.

So to test it I bunged in a pola film, shot of pic on my mates van and something hadnt worked, ok, so I shot another this time fine, then we started taking pics of each other. I took the first shot of my mate and got a pic of his van, what? He took one of me and got a pic of him..
It took use a few seconds to realsie we were a shot behind the camera.

Somehow, and I still dont really understand it, the camera took a pic, but gave us a blank shot at the start, I suspect I'd done something wrong loading the film.

Anyway, once we got got it figured out it worked really well.

It's actually pretty easy to do, more or less you remove the back of the Lubiten, and the lens and part of the front of the pola camera, and stick them together, with some filler and I think some bits of the back of the Lubitel to line up the cameras.
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Sounds like that Two Ronnie's Mastermind sketch where Ronnie Corbet answers the question before last, but in Polaroid format.
 
FishyFish said:
Sounds like that Two Ronnie's Mastermind sketch where Ronnie Corbet answers the question before last, but in Polaroid format.
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It was really. I did plan to have fun with it by taking a pic of a monkey, then going and taking someone pics, pulling the picture and letting it develop in their hand. Trouble was it only did it with the first film, I must have pulled two tabs or something when installing the film.
 
Use a sprocket rocket. The transport doesn't hold the film well. Then further seal the fate of the film victim by winding the wind knob the wrong way so the film unfurls.... then reload the same film and start again. Then find you've wound on so far you are at the end of the roll in about 3 shots as the white dot thing for each frame is invisible much of the time. :headbang:
 
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