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Re: [OM] Re: Film loading question

Subject: Re: [OM] Re: Film loading question
From: Steve Goss <steveg3@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 23:02:26 -0500
And remember, it could be worse.  I sent my wife off with my OM2n to shoot our
daughter's first ballet recital dress rehearsal a week ago.  No, I didn't load
the film wrong.  I forgot to load the film period...
Steve Goss, Dallas Tx usa

Giles wrote:
> 
> after inserting the film leader in the take up spool, fire the shutter
> then wind on a frame so the leader wraps around the spool and is then
> overlapped by film.  Then position the sprocket holes of the film on the
> film advance cogs, take up the slack with the rewind lever 'then' close
> the back and shoot two blank shots and check the rotation of the
> folded rewind lever.
> 
> I never try and squeeze an extra shot at the beginning of a roll prior to
> the counter registering frame 1.  I have previously had otherwise good
> shots ruined because they were too close to the leader and suffered
> partial wipe out.
> 
> Giles
> 
> Brett Lucas wrote:
> 
> > loading.  Recently I loaded the 35mm film roll into
> > the camera, and inserted the tail end of the film roll
> > into the take up spool, and closed the back of the
> > camera.  I then started shooting off the roll of film.
> 
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