OMG Lost my work!

[JBaz]

I'm so mad right now, its off the scale.

I'm doing a school project right now and I'm shooting 3 different themes in the studio. All of which has to be on one roll of film. I'm shooting with a Mamiya rb67 so I only get 10 frames per roll. Well, the photo illustrations that I did were pretty much very time consuming to get the perfect shot of each theme. Probably a good 5 hours to test the lighting, meter, make sure it's exactly what I want.

Well, I got done with shooting and I was about to roll the film up, but then the damn thing slipped out of my hand, exposing the film to the light. It may only be $5 but that's a meal, plus all of the hard work involved.

Did I mention I hate film? I'm a digital junkie through and through. grrr :mad:

[sm1rf]

gutted!!!

[John_B]

JBaz,
Sorry to hear that,
but its just another reminder to me why I don't miss film :)

[sapearl]

Sorry to hear about that JBaz - really sucks... been there done that.

I used to work for a college newspaper way back last century and we did our own darkroom work. Sometimes we had more rolls from a shoot than developing reels to process them, and a deadline to meet. Now, there is a way, if you are very careful, to load TWO rolls on a reel at the same time if you roll them backing to backing. This way the emulsion faces out tothe developer.

Well, you can guess what happened. It was very late and we were really tired and I couldn't feel the film curl properly..... both rolls were essentially glued together, with just a few frames processed. Not only did I botch the assignment but the managing editor was really pissed.:o

[GyRob]

yes sorry for what has happened.
I too was a rb67 user loved the revolving back but hated loading the darn film it always came of the reel and took sevrel goes to load right.
I once tried the 2 roll trick ended up with parts developed and parts not and so many creases and kinks in the film .
A nightmare .
Rob.

[sapearl]

It really takes an art and sensitive fingers to do the "two roll tango". I think our problem was we had been used bulk loaded film - had rolled our own - and somehow the familiar curl was on the wrong side. Ouch.:(

......I once tried the 2 roll trick ended up with parts developed and parts not and so many creases and kinks in the film .
A nightmare .
Rob.

[JBaz]

all fared well. Woke up early, re-shoot, drove an hour to school, processed film, classes, printed contact sheet, class, printed 8x10's, mounted and in the professor's door by the end of the day. That only took 12 hours... ugg.

If this was digital, I could have that stuff done in 30 mins or less. After all that hardwork, I treated myself to an Epson Printer that was on sale at B&H. :)

[sapearl]

Very happy to hear that it worked out for you - and you are entitled to your reward too ;)