>>> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 00:56:37 -0700, "Richard F. Man"
>>> <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
rfm> At 09:43 PM 6/29/2003 -1000, Daniel wrote:
>> This year I'm up to some 30 rolls of film but embarrassing I have
>> shot 3 BLANK rolls of film :( I swear I can tell the different
>> between an empty winding of the film to an empty one. Dumb
>> question; how can I be sure I have film in the camera after losing
>> track sometimes?
>> Dan
rfm> Spin the crank. No film and there won't be any tension.
rfm> Lose a few more rolls and you won't forget :-)
That was going to be my suggestion. It happened to me when I was in
college and we were shooting group shots for the yearbook. We would
schedule the ballroom every night for a week and shuffle all the
groups through one of 3 or 4 shooting stations. All the photographers
begged for the chance to do groups. We were paid per published shot.
On a normal assignment, you might bust your tail for hours for one or
two shots in the book. With groups, you were almost guaranteed at
least 2 and as many as 4 published shots per hour depending on if all
of your groups showed up for their appointments or not. But when I
lost that entire roll, I had to get in touch with over a dozen groups
and make arrangements for them to either come back to one of the later
nights or I had to catch up with them at a later date for reshoots. It
was a both embarrassing and expensive mistake on my part. Thankfully,
it was a repeatable event, if it had been an event that I couldn't
have reshot, I would have lost my job, never bought my -4T, and
probably would have sold my -2n. And I wouldn't be here today boring
everyone with a rambling "what he said" reply.
Anyway, that day was when I learned the "spin the crank" trick, and it
hasn't happened again. Its second nature now, I do it all the time
without even realizing I'm doing it.
Johnie
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