Perhaps Maitani should have put a big red arrow on the top plate so people
wouldn't forget to rewind in the correct direction. Come to think of it
maybe this could come into the customised body category.
...Wayne
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> Subject: [OM] "I can't believe I did that!"
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> Here is my entry in the "I can't believe I did that!" cOMpetition:
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> As we have at last had some decent weather in the UK, I decided
> to take out
> a newly-acquired pre-loved OM body for a test roll of film. When
> I got back
> home, I started to rewind the film, and thought "Mmm, this is stiff". I
> continued winding, and thought "Mmm, this IS stiff". Wound some more and
> thought "My g*d this is stiff". I continued winding until suddenly the
> rewind
> knob came loose from the rewind crank. Now I started to panic.
> I used the
> film advance lever to wind on the film -- that worked and
> confirmed that the
> film was still attached to the spools at both ends. At this point I was
> completely nonplussed (my dictionary defines that as "reduced to hopeless
> perplexity"), so I opened the back and removed the film, which was indeed
> still engaged at both ends. Since I don't have a darkroom, the
> contents of
> the film were lost. It was only after I had done this that I
> twigged what I
> had done.
>
> If you have ever removed the rewind knob on an OM body (I had done this on
> a previous body), you will know that the knob is screwed on to the rewind
> crank in such a way that rewinding a film tends to screw the rewind knob
> more tightly onto the crank. The fact that it had become unscrewed meant
> that (gasp!) I was rewinding the film the wrong way (that is,
> anticlockwise
> when viewed from the top of the camera). No wonder it was stiff! I
> refitted the rewind knob (easy if you use the right
> tools/procedure), and it
> seems none the worse for its ordeal.
>
> But I still cannot believe that I made such an elementary mistake. Doh!
>
> -- from Cy in the UK
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