earthmanbuck
No longer a newbie, moving up!
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Hi folks, it's been a while...good to see ya again.
I recently blew a roll of film on my favourite and most-used camera, my Pentax K1000—and it was a roll I took of my childhood home and hometown as I helped my dad move out this past weekend, so it's a bit of a bummer.
For starters, I had a helluva time loading the film due to the stupid spool in the K1000, which is really the only thing I don't like about the camera. It took me probably half an hour to get it through. I also tried first with a junk roll so as not to waste too many shots on the good one, and I "shot" about half the junk roll with the back open, just to make sure everything was working as it should, and it seemed to be.
When I loaded in the good film, I did 3 or 4 shots just to make sure again, and then closed the back. As I was shooting (this was all over the course of the same day), everything felt totally normal—no weird resistance or grinding sounds—and the counter was counting. But when I got to about 42 shots on a 36 shot roll, I realized something was wrong and rewound, and it came off so fast I estimate there could have only been max 4 good shots on there.
This has happened to me a couple times in the past, when I first started shooting, but that was a matter of me not feeding the film all the way through the spool. This time I did, and everything felt fine, so I'm a little stumped. Any ideas what went wrong and how I might be able to fix it in the future?
I recently blew a roll of film on my favourite and most-used camera, my Pentax K1000—and it was a roll I took of my childhood home and hometown as I helped my dad move out this past weekend, so it's a bit of a bummer.
For starters, I had a helluva time loading the film due to the stupid spool in the K1000, which is really the only thing I don't like about the camera. It took me probably half an hour to get it through. I also tried first with a junk roll so as not to waste too many shots on the good one, and I "shot" about half the junk roll with the back open, just to make sure everything was working as it should, and it seemed to be.
When I loaded in the good film, I did 3 or 4 shots just to make sure again, and then closed the back. As I was shooting (this was all over the course of the same day), everything felt totally normal—no weird resistance or grinding sounds—and the counter was counting. But when I got to about 42 shots on a 36 shot roll, I realized something was wrong and rewound, and it came off so fast I estimate there could have only been max 4 good shots on there.
This has happened to me a couple times in the past, when I first started shooting, but that was a matter of me not feeding the film all the way through the spool. This time I did, and everything felt fine, so I'm a little stumped. Any ideas what went wrong and how I might be able to fix it in the future?