Disposable camera question??
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Technically yes, if you have a darkroom as the film comes wound onto an open spool and as you wind it on it is pulled into the 35mm cartridge, the idea being that if you accidentally break/open the camera the shots you've taken are already safely inside the cartridge. Theres usually two little catches on each side of the back so you can open it without a hammer.
To reload it you would need to attach the film to the spool and wind it all manually onto it before replacing it and the attached cartridge in the camera. Not something that could be very easily done in a changing bag as you also have to watch out for the flash capacitor in some single use cameras as they pack quite a charge, not something that you want to accidentally stick your finger into and ground in the dark...
To reload it you would need to attach the film to the spool and wind it all manually onto it before replacing it and the attached cartridge in the camera. Not something that could be very easily done in a changing bag as you also have to watch out for the flash capacitor in some single use cameras as they pack quite a charge, not something that you want to accidentally stick your finger into and ground in the dark...
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So does that explain why it counts down from 27 and not up to.
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Now I know I miss the point sometimes but doesn't taking the film out a disposable camera and replacing it with another film just make it a camera?
Trying to cheat the upcoming disposable camera challenge with some better film 
But yes like the others said in a disposable the film winds into the canister (some Canon film SLR's do this as well, like the 500n by winding all the film out when you load it then it shoots back into the canister) so you would have to pull out the film from the canister into a tight circle and try to load it in the dark and them re-assemble the camera.
Just buy a disposable and shoot whatever is in it, already got mine, some Kodak flash thing with ISO 800 film so it should be grainy as hell and probably over-exposed in daylight.
But yes like the others said in a disposable the film winds into the canister (some Canon film SLR's do this as well, like the 500n by winding all the film out when you load it then it shoots back into the canister) so you would have to pull out the film from the canister into a tight circle and try to load it in the dark and them re-assemble the camera.
Just buy a disposable and shoot whatever is in it, already got mine, some Kodak flash thing with ISO 800 film so it should be grainy as hell and probably over-exposed in daylight.
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But like already said above, be careful with the flash - many years ago i decided to take apart a disposable and got a fairly nasty electric shock from the flash capacitator, I opened the camera up and accidentally touched a metallic part and got the shock.
