Dieter Henkel wrote:
> Reading the thread about shooting before frame no.1 a question came to
> my mind. Does the EOS-3 position the first frame always on exactly the
> same spot? Does the IR-counter always count the exact number of
> sprocket holes to reach no.1?
Hi,
This should be easy enough to determine by looking at your negatives to see if
the first frame occurs at the same position on each roll. If the mechanism
advances the film by counting sprocket holes, presumably each role starts at the
same position--the frame numbered 01 (although sometimes it seems to start at
01A). If you look, you will see that most films (at least those that I use)
begin frame numbering with 00, followed by 0, and then 1 or 01--some may also
exend to 37 (but I'm not going to dig out my negs to confirm this!).
As Peter mentioned, with manual-loading cameras, it is often possible to get up
to 38 frames per roll if you don't pull the leader out too far when loading the
camera; in the Canon line, the old FTb with the QL ("quick load") feature made
this easy. For years I was in the habit of trying to get those last couple of
frames out of each roll; but today, when I'm shooting negs at least as often as
slides and filing them in 35-frame storage pages (seven rows of five frames), I
try to remember to rewind after 35 frames so I don't need to spend time finding
a "disposable" image on the roll, preferably one located in a position that
allows me to keep the strips at five frames each (rather than a strip of of two
and a strip of three in one row).
fcc
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