Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Recently I mailed two rolls of Kodachrome to the lab in Lausanne. When they came back one of the two yellow boxes contained no slides, just the roll of processed film with a note that the film had not been exposed. I knew that my M6 was working properly, so I just assumed that I had somehow screwed up and forgot about it. Yesterday I received my latest box of slides from Kodak. These were fairly important pictures, documenting my motorcycle ride from Brussels to Zurich a few weeks ago and the last weekend in Brussels before the move. I took out the slides...put them on the light table...turned on the light...and ARGH!!!-all the slides were double-exposed. Now I remembered that a couple of weeks earlier I had loaded my M6 with K64 and before taking the first shot had decided to switch to Provia F as I needed saturated colors. I had accidentally rewound the unexposed K64 all the way into the cassette. No problem--I just retrieved it using my Ilford tool. Except that I obviously retrieved the leader of an already exposed roll, stuck it into the M6 and re-exposed it, while the original blank roll went off to Kodak. From now on I will mark every exposed roll with a fat X on the cassette itself. Nathan - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch General photo site: http://belgiangator.tripod.com/ Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/