Stupid, stupid, stupid...

[iamzip]

So, I just put a roll of Kodak Portra 400VC 220 ($15 at my local camera shop) through my Fuji GA645. Shots of Christmas, plus a few of my mom's birthday and my wife's. I finish the roll, open up the camera, and can't find the little adhesive spot to secure it, so I go into the other room to get a piece of scotch tape. While fiddling with it, I drop the roll, not just drop it on the floor but I am still holding one end in my hand so it unravels as it falls...:bang::mad::(

[dazedgonebye]

Oh great. I've always been afraid I'd do that, and now I know I will.

Sorry....

[sonofdanang]

That really sucks.
Done the same thing, but differently, back in the seventies. I was in the back of the company car, the scribbler was driving to evade, and we were heading for the lab when I managed to lose control of pretty much everything. Nikon 250-exposure back (first use, thus unfamiliar to me), dumped.

We managed to salvage some stuff.

On my MF camera straps I have a 35mm canister with little rubber bands inside it. Useful for many things, including securing the odd roll of 120.

Cheers,

S

[iamzip]

Unfortunately I've been fighting a cold for a few days, and today seems to be the worst so far, so my head is kind of in a fog. Usually I am super careful about that kind of thing, I guess I got too confident.

[nikon_sam]

Great...now I have something new to worry about!!!
I just started respooling some 120 to 620 reels so keeping it tight and taped is a big deal right now...

[MartinP]

Camera tape stuck somewhere on the camera looks trashy but is very useful - though I wouldn't bother at home, I must admit. It has to be viewed as a "learning experience" I guess :-/

[iamzip]

I guess. As I was unloading the camera, I was actually thinking to myself, "Why am I unloading this now? I'm not going to the camera store again today." So now I will leave it in the camera until I take it in, develop it myself, or want to put another roll in the camera.

I actually was able to forget about it for a while (it was pretty upsetting), my wife and I went out to dinner for her birthday and I loaded some Superia 1600 into my Canon A1 and slapped my 50mm 1.4 on the front - currently the fastest glass I own. We went to Morimoto here in Philly, some pretty interesting lighting / design, looking forward to seeing how the pics come out.

[Dfin]

You are not Robinson Crusoe there old son. I did exactly the same thing at a wedding shoot, mainly arriving at the church/car shots. Luckly my assistant was covering with 35mm, so not all was lost, but it still hurt.