On Sep 2, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Glen Tortorella wrote: > I loaded a roll of film into one of my cameras. It is currently on > "1." I changed my mind, and would like to know if I could rewind the > film back into the cartridge and remove it from the camera (a Super > Program). If I could do this and only lose a couple of exposures, > that would be okay.
It's possible to do this on nearly any 35mm camera with a manual rewind. 0) Note what frame the roll has been advanced to. 1) gently turn the rewind nob until there is just a little bit of tension on the film and hold it there. 2) Press in the rewind button ... you should feel the tension slack 3) carefully turn the rewind until you "just" feel the film let go of the take up spool. At this point, you can open the back and take out the film. When reloading the film ... 1) carefully try to fit the film into the camera without pulling it any further out of the cassette than you did originally. 2) put the lens cap on, set the exposure mode to Manual, set the lens to f/22, set the shutter to the shortest available shutter time. 3) Advance the film to 2 frames past the last one you took on the roll. With a little practice, you can do this over and over again and only lose 1 frame on the roll per time you pull and re-load a given film. Of course, if you're on frame number one and you haven't made an exposure, just rewind and start it at frame number one again... Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
