RE: [Leica] "The Dreaded Shirt Tail Syndrome" ... or ... "Confessions of a Silly Sausage"

["Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com>]

Steve:

Develop the film.  You will be surprised that some will turn out .

Regards,

Robert

At 11:06 PM 3/12/2002 +0100, Steve Unsworth wrote:
>Ray
>
>Well just to make you feel better...
>
>On Sunday I was taking some shots of a busker. I finished the roll and as I
>stopped he introduced himself. Turns out he's an American living in Paris
>and asked if I could send him some prints to send to his parents in the
>States. We had a brief discussion, I took his address and I said I'd send
>him a CD with some of the shots on it.
>
>I then took the bottom of the M6. As I'm taking the bottom off I asked
>myself if I'd rewound the film. The short answer is no I hadn't. Enter one
>totally ruined roll of Tri-X :-(
>
>Moral, never get _too_ distracted with a Leica
>
>Steve
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Ray Moth
>Sent: 12 March 2002 08:30
>To: LEG; LUG; MUsers Forum
>Subject: [Leica] "The Dreaded Shirt Tail Syndrome" ... or ...
>"Confessions of a Silly Sausage"
>
>
>Well, I finally did it! I suppose it was ineveitable that I would, one
>day, close the base (actually, the motor) on my M6 TTL without closing
>the back. Left it hanging out like a shirt tail, I did, and got through
>half a roll of film before I noticed. "Well I never!" I thought to
>myself, "What a turn-up for the book!" (or words to that effect).
>
>In my panic, I rewound the film, opened the base, reloaded it, closed
>the back and the base (properly, this time) and wound on, using the
>motor, to the position the film was in when I noticed my error, then
>took one more blank frame. This was probably a complete waste of time
>because all the shots taken previously must be ruined, I would think. I
>feel like a nincompoop (but where am I gong to find one this time of
>day?)  :o{
>
>Regards,
>
>=====
>Ray
>
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