andremartins
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THE EVENT:
So, today I went to a Photography Store to develop my first film. This event went terribly wrong. The fault was as mine as it was hers (the employee).
But, here's what happened: I told her I had never rewound a film in my life, so maybe it would be better if she did it. So, she tried to do so. She kept on rotating the rewind knob, but the film wasn't rewinding, so she said "oh, it must be already fully rewound. I'll now open the back side of the camera". Everything happened so fast that I didn't even have the time to think that doing that in such an illuminated room would burn the film, if it wasn't rewound like she had predicted. So, she opened the back and tchadan: the film wasn't rewound. She was like "humm, well, the film is now unrecoverable". And, then she probably felt like she didn't do the right thing, so she started saying that the film was "blocked" and that the camera wasn't very good at rewinding films . I was so upset that I didn't even say anything. Just fake-smiled and left the store.
THE PROBLEM:
Later at home, I went on "invastigating" the film and on doing some tests with it, and what I think it happened was the following: the problem in this situation was the film. You know that plastic thing on the top of the film that helps the rewind knob rotating the film? That plastic thing wasn't very good (probably not strong enough or not reachable enough), so it didn't quite help the camera on the rewinding process. Well, the film was one that I bought on a chinese store for 2,50€, but I never thought it would lack quality on the film plastic itself. I thought it would only mess up the tones a little bit (which I didn't mind at all)
THE SOLUTION:
Now, the solution for this would be... Before she had opened the back side of the camera, I should have stopped her and take the film home. And, at home, in a room without much light, I would have opened the back side of the camera and rewind the film with my own hands untill I couldn't do it anymore. That wouldn't save the 36 photos, but at least 14 would be ok. And, by ok I mean developable. Probably, they would have some fingertips and some damaging, but it could turn out to be something artistic.
What do you think: am I right or wrong?
Do you think this "solution" would have had success?
Do you have a different solution?
Do you have any suggestions for me?
Any feedback would be much appreciated .
Thank you,
André Martins .
So, today I went to a Photography Store to develop my first film. This event went terribly wrong. The fault was as mine as it was hers (the employee).
But, here's what happened: I told her I had never rewound a film in my life, so maybe it would be better if she did it. So, she tried to do so. She kept on rotating the rewind knob, but the film wasn't rewinding, so she said "oh, it must be already fully rewound. I'll now open the back side of the camera". Everything happened so fast that I didn't even have the time to think that doing that in such an illuminated room would burn the film, if it wasn't rewound like she had predicted. So, she opened the back and tchadan: the film wasn't rewound. She was like "humm, well, the film is now unrecoverable". And, then she probably felt like she didn't do the right thing, so she started saying that the film was "blocked" and that the camera wasn't very good at rewinding films . I was so upset that I didn't even say anything. Just fake-smiled and left the store.
THE PROBLEM:
Later at home, I went on "invastigating" the film and on doing some tests with it, and what I think it happened was the following: the problem in this situation was the film. You know that plastic thing on the top of the film that helps the rewind knob rotating the film? That plastic thing wasn't very good (probably not strong enough or not reachable enough), so it didn't quite help the camera on the rewinding process. Well, the film was one that I bought on a chinese store for 2,50€, but I never thought it would lack quality on the film plastic itself. I thought it would only mess up the tones a little bit (which I didn't mind at all)
THE SOLUTION:
Now, the solution for this would be... Before she had opened the back side of the camera, I should have stopped her and take the film home. And, at home, in a room without much light, I would have opened the back side of the camera and rewind the film with my own hands untill I couldn't do it anymore. That wouldn't save the 36 photos, but at least 14 would be ok. And, by ok I mean developable. Probably, they would have some fingertips and some damaging, but it could turn out to be something artistic.
What do you think: am I right or wrong?
Do you think this "solution" would have had success?
Do you have a different solution?
Do you have any suggestions for me?
Any feedback would be much appreciated .
Thank you,
André Martins .
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