Not exactly. It contained many 'virtual photos' of a hill station (Nandi Hill) that I visited last month and that time I was accompanied by one my friend. :-(
I don't care much about the money (since it was a short trip and it can be visited again) that I wasted but I do care about the moments (some candid photographs were there in the 'virtual film' loaded in my Ricoh.) :-(( Regards, Ayash. On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Alan Chan wrote: > Well, shxt things happened. Luckily you didn't shoot with your friends. :) > > regards, > Alan Chan > > >Today I was shooting with my new Ricoh XR-8 Super at a park nearby. > >Altimately the frame counter reached 36. I thought that I may be able to > >squeeze out 2 more at least and went ahead, 38 now. But hey! I can advance > >it further. I was over joyed. Took one more, 39 now. To my surprise, I > >found that I can get one more. I grew suspicious. This is impossible. I > >replaced the lens cap on the lens, adjusted the aperture to minimum > >aperture setting (f/22), adjusted the shutter speed to the fastest and > >depressed the shutter to avoid any multiple exposure if frame no 39 is > >really there and had been exposed. I found that it was possible to > >'advance the film' further and further. I didn't noticed whether the film > >rewind knob is rotating or not. > >Has the film snapped? > >Or is it a faulty body? > >The next moment, I rushed to the shop from where I purchased it. He > >checked it and said,"probably you have not loaded the film correctly" > >"What? What are you saying?" > >"Plese let me check." > >He inserted the camera in a changing bag and confirmed that he was right. > > > >Boy, oh boy! I blank fired 40 bullets. :-(( > >First time in my life. > > > >Cheers, > >Ayash. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
