Craig_Cooper11664875449 Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Just a story to highlight some embarassing stupidity...<p>I have a friend staying with me in Singapore at the moment and a couple ofweekends ago we went to Bangkok to extend her tourist stamp. Didnt really planon doing much shooting but on our last night there I decided to run a roll ofFuji Neopan 1600 thru a Leica M + 35 Lux. I had a couple of shots I was reallylooking forward to viewing.<p>Well, I just developed the roll and ended up with a totally clear roll offilm... hmmm!<p>1) Ive never ruined a roll of film developing it yet<br>2) There was tension on the film while I rewound it and I felt it come off thespool as I leave the leader out<br>3) The entire roll was shot in one go <i>ie. the camera was never put away fromstart to finish of shooting the roll</i><p><p><b><i>Im pretty sure I know what I did (or didnt do)... Anyone wanna guess atwhat went wrong?</i></b> :)<p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ron_h__portland_ Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Lens cap? Ohh, that would really hurt. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymond_tai Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Are you sure you had really gone to BKK and shot a roll of film? Maybe it was all a dream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fran_ois_courtois Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 you interverted fixer & developper ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughes Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Craig when you say totally clear does that mean no numbers on the edge? If there were no numbers you developed the film in fixer, if there are numbers you did not expose the film. good luck Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig_Cooper11664875449 Posted August 7, 2006 Author Share Posted August 7, 2006 <i>...the numbers are still there!</i> :) <p> Im with Ron at the moment... although I probably should really investigate Raymonds theory :)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
working camera Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Craig could come down to the number of G and Ts consumed? I've heard that the lens cap on situation can happen in unattentive moments. C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lutz Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 How did you meter with the lens cap on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyaitken Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 You forgot to put the HC110 or whatever in the developer mix? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig_Cooper11664875449 Posted August 7, 2006 Author Share Posted August 7, 2006 Lutz... <i>How did you meter with the lens cap on?</i> <p> ...its an M2 so the meter never matters. Was using a hand held :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve george Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Ouch! Just means you'll have to make another trip to Bangkok :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_chan4 Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 You had 2 M's? Load the M2 and shot with your other empty MP? I know, totally inconceivable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronald_moravec1 Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 If the leader and edge marks developed, the film did not go thru or there is a shutter or lens cap problem. If the film was totally clear, then it is a process problem. Usual suspects are reversed fix and developer, dead or old developer. Run a few shots on a test roll and pull out 12 inches in the dark and check the developer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig_Cooper11664875449 Posted August 7, 2006 Author Share Posted August 7, 2006 <i>ya gotta laugh mate</i> ...thats why I put it up here Petey boy. May as well let everybody have a laugh at it... :)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbg32 Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Sometimes, beauty is hard to capture.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony_brookes5 Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 You processed a new film and threw the exposed one away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Blackwell Images Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 There are only two possibilities I can think of (short of some issue with the chemicals) - (1) The film was miss-threaded (I did this once myself on a Washington D.C. trip a couple of years ago) and (2) The lens cap... but I doubt you would do this through an entire roll without ever catching yourself. Hope all is well with you, Craig. Bill “When you come to a fork in the road, take it ...” – Yogi Berra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjords Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Craig, and she never told you?<:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blowingsky Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Hopefully you still have the images buffered in memory... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Blackwell Images Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 About a year ago I went to a construction site with my M6; there were trackers and laborers everywhere. About halfway into the roll, I realized I had the lens cap on. At that point, realizing why my meter diodes had been flashing at me, as cool as I could I rewound the film into its canister and started over, this time with the lens cap in my pocket! While driving back to the office I embarrassingly told my co-worker what I had done. He then sheepishly admitted to me that he noticed the lens cap on the front of my camera, but he thought it was "some sort of high-tech device." My point is you can't always depend on non-photographers to let you know when you're screwing up. “When you come to a fork in the road, take it ...” – Yogi Berra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travis1 Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 the tension as you rewound wasn't really there. Must be some other tension.. i.e you didn't load properly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_amos Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 I've never lost a whole roll to the lens cap, but I have once or twice or more shot the decisive moment through black plastic. Congrats to your sense of humor about it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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