> When I was at art college in 1978 there were half a dozen Zenit E's and > one old Spottie in the photography dept. The Spottie's film door was > broken and held together with tape. The first and last time I used one > of the Zenits it chewed the perfs at the end of the roll and I couldn't > rewind it! >
My first SLR was a Zenit-E. In fact, it was only my second camera. I bought an MX as soon as I could afford one, but the Zenit-E was a great camera to learn on. [...] > > Once, upon returning to the college to process in the darkroom, I was > waiting my turn in line when the door on the Spottie popped open of its > own accord and the (rewound) cassette flew out at warp ten. These > cassettes were re-usable and loaded from a bulk loader by the lab tech > every day. They were old and tired (the cassettesm not the lab techs). > As soon as it hit the floor, both ends of the cassette parted company > with the main body and the film was thoughtfully exposed to ambient > light for the second or two it took for me to rugby-tackle it to the > floor. I collected it up in my shirt and (claiming emergency rights) > sprinted into the darkroom. I recall that only a few frames were > ruined, > and in fact in seeing the interesting effects of double-exposed perfs > on > adjacent frames, started me on an experimental kick with all sorts of > weird shit. were they your shots of the D-Day Landings? B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
