I got back a roll of B&W film in which I had one frame containing about 15
shots. Seems that I never noticed that the leader came out of the wind
spindle and I had accidently pressed the film rewind button at one point.
By never noticing that the film rewind knob wasn't turning I ruined
pictures from both my Oregon trip and a trip to Mississippi. So much for
the mach wave pictures.
Lesson learned.
Oh, but I'm still trying to figure out why my camera refused to stop
winding on a single frame earlier in the roll. In extremely cold
conditions it would skip frames. Must be the grease inside causing the cogs
to not slide in place properly. Oh, well, I wasn't working too well that
evening either.
On a side note regarding the HP-5 and my late evening shots of the
dilapidated farmhouse. I put the OM-2S in auto and with the exception of
one shot (which hit the 2-minute terminator) every single one was exposed
properly or even slightly over exposed (well I did have the exposure
compensation set at +1/3). No recip failure here. I've got a beautiful
set of negs to work with. Compared to the roll of TRI-X I had finished on
the same site, I actually prefer the HP-5 over TRI-X! Of course, I haven't
looked too closely yet and the proof will be in the printing. Come to
think of it, I was concerned enough with shadow detail that I did want them
slightly over exposed anyway! Hah! gotta love OTF and Olympus' long
exposure times.
Ken Norton
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