Zenit 3M : 3rd roll
Posted by peanut on Saturday Aug 15, 2009 Under photographyThis is the 3rd roll of my Zenit and I thought I would have master at least a little bit of the technique but mannnnn… I was wrong.
It had so far been the worst disaster of me and this camera.
Half way down around the 20th+ picture, the dialer got stuck and I couldn’t pull it all the way to load the next coming slide. There is no way I would wanna force it to load with mere force. So I got no choice, but to open up the back and see what got stuck.
The film cascade got stuck with the turning piece. I pulled out the whole thing, exposing a big deal of the film (sigh). Put it back, and tried to shoot some other stuffs, hoping that it wouldn’t turn out too bad by the end of the film.
And worse…
When I was about to finish the film, it got stuck AGAIN. There must be some defect on the way I install the film because I didn’t face this problem during the first 2 times.
I carefully roled the whole thing back, and before it ended, it got stuck, I pulled harder and snap! 1 roll of film turned into 2.
I took the film to the shop, and only 5 pictures came out. The others all exposed.
These are the 5.
This last picture has this red thingy on the side because from this pic onwards, everything is exposed. Sighh..
Anyway, I think I did captured some happy moment. I don’t mind wasting money (RM7.50) for washing and developing 5 pictures. I think this is a learning process. So it is still a beautiful failure (the pictures, not my buddy’s wedding).
Hopefully this learning process is worthwhile. I’m free anyway. hehe.
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August 16th, 2009 at 6:17 am
You’re using film?…Not digital?
August 18th, 2009 at 12:58 am
STP, both! Haha..