I do much the same. I can often be seen 'rewinding' the knob, even in the
middle of a photo shoot. I do it pretty much anytime I pick up a different
camera body. I am always checking things, film, flash connections, power
switches, battery life. I am even more meticulous about my loading & unloading
procedures. I never open a camera back until I KNOW if there is film in there
and whether it is rewound or not. Each film canister is labeled with a sharpie
upon removal, w/date and subject and any push/pull information.
Maybe it's my climbing background, but I have a 'setup' routine I go through
both in climbing and in photography. I don't talk or even really acknowledge
anyone while doing it, my concentration is fully on the task! It's one thing to
blow a camera load, not properly tying your harness can really ruin your day,
or life!
Jim Couch
"John A. Lind" wrote:
>
> Two years later I am still reminded periodically by my other half about how
> a a camera back was opened without the film rewound. That and a couple
> other incidents have resulted in:
> (a) Spinning the rewind knob whenever pulling a 35mm camera body out of
> the camera bag to see if there's film in it. Even if it's a rewound roll,
> there's some resistance to rotation.
> (b) Using the film minder on the camera back (if it has one), especially
> if something *other* than Kodachrome 64 is in the camera body.
> (c) After reloading film, watching the rewind knob to ensure it's spinning
> while winding after the first two firings to get to frame #1.
>
> >Things like this happen to each of us at least once.
>
> It's why I do all of the above now. Eventually it becomes a habit
> performed without thinking about it.
>
> Watched a long-time pro handle his Nik*n F2 once. He not only did all of
> the above, he did them sub-consciously out of rote habit. He had become so
> accustomed to using "AI" lenses that he also rotates a lens aperture ring
> through all its stops in each direction just after mounting it to the body
> (ensures a lens aperture tab engages a meter biasing pin). How rote was
> this? He did it after mounting an AF lens to his F100 while he was in the
> middle of a conversation with me!
>
> -- John
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