I hope you got this right, graywolf. I thought of it too, but Jasmine's original post made me think of other things, too.
graywolf wrote:
Frank answered most of these for you, so I will just speculate on item 4.
If I am understanding you correctly I would guess that you did not get the end of the film properly onto the take up spool. The fillm rather than winding on was just flopping around and the end eventually popped between the shutter curtains jamming the camera.
Now, if this is the case, what you will have to do is open the back of the camera and slowly and gently, very gently, pull the end of the film out of the shutter. Then inspect the shutter closely. If nothing looks damaged, you can try advaning the film wind and firing the shutter. If that works then you can reload the film, being careful that end is properly into takeup spool. You can varify that by winding it on a couple of frames before closing the back. If that did not work then you probably will have to have a repair guy look at the camera.
If I did not understand you correctly, then the above probably won't apply to the situation.
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Jasmine wrote:
4. I was taking some pics and suddenly the camera went dark. I read something about the mirrors sticking sometimes on these types of cameras so I took the lens off to check it out (like I even know what the mirror looks like or where it is!). There was a piece of film in there. The end piece that goes in first on a new role of film. Does this mean my whole role is ruined? Could it have scratched anything? Is this an odd occurrence?
