[PRCo] Re: Film tricks

[Bob Rathke]

Fred,

I use Nikon equipment, but I wouldn't own a camera that was so automated
that it has automatic rewind :-).  All of my lenses are manual, and
fortunately you can always find more Nikkor lenses on the used market at
good prices.  When my daughter enrolled in photography classes at college in
1994, they would only approve students' use of fully manual cameras.  And
right now I'm helping a neighbor learn how to use his super-expensive Canon
camera in the manual mode.

Bob 10/18/01

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred W. Schneider III" <fschnei at supernet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 6:24 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Film tricks


>
> You primitive being.  I'm not so lucky.  The motorized rewind on my
> Nikon simply winds it back into the cassette.
>
> Bob Rathke wrote:
> >
> > I don't usually perform the tight-wound-take-up trick, but when I think
of
> > it, I try to watch the rewind knob to be sure it's turning.  However, I
> > sometimes switch film among cameras, especially if it's a 36-exposure
roll
> > of special film with only a few exposures on it, and I need to put a
> > different roll of film in that camera.  I note the exposure number on
the
> > counter, then rewind the film until I hear the leader slip off the
take-up
> > reel; when I reload that roll later, I advance it to the exposure number
> > where it was last exposed, and then give it 2-3 extra advances to be
safe
> > (this is all done in a dark area, lens cap on, and shutter set at 1/1000
> > second).  However, if the roll of film is near the end of the reel, I'll
> > simply rewind it, forget about the lost exposures, and get it processed.
> >
> > For most B&W exposures, unaided I can't differentiate among similar
> > negatives of the same view, so I use an 8X loupe for that chore.
> >
> > Bob 10/18/01