The camera i was using was automatic rewind so i figured i could just open it, but when i did no film was rewound. So i closed it and hoped for the best. In photo class this happened to someone else but they only lost the 4 or 5 pictures on top, will i lose all of them? or just the few, because none were rewound and only a few were showing.
PLEASE HELP FAST
2007-10-08 14:18:17 · 5 answers · asked by happygirl23 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
Depending on how quickly you closed the back, you might get lucky. I once dropped a pocket camera, the back popped open, I closed it right away, and only lost a few images. I think it's still worth the trouble to get it developed and see.
2007-10-08 15:13:26 · answer #1 · answered by Terisu 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This depends upon how long it was exposed to light, how bright the light was, etc etc.
Most likely if you opened and shut it fast enough, you'll have many usable images.
This has probably happened to the majority of us at least once. A lesson learned the hard way.
From now on, you'll be very sensitive to knowing if the film is rewound or not. I've even had the opposite happen where no film came out, I shot a roll, rewound it, and there were no photos. You rarely make these kind of mistakes more then once.
Depending upon the camera, there are different ways to check this out. Be sensitive to how your camera works and sounds. When taking photos, you should hear some drag from the motor drive when the film advances (maybe see the spool move), if it's all manual (and some automatics), you can feel tension in the rewind spool. When rewinding the film, if it's automatic, be sensitive to the sound it makes when it rewinds normally. If it doesn't sound this way, you know something is wrong.
If you think something is wrong, you can check the film safely by doing the following. Take a heavy winter jacket and zip it up. Go into a dark room with no window (a bathroom or a closet) and all lights off. Put the camera into the jacket and place your arms through the opposite ends of the jacket - the opposite way you would normally place your arms. Now open the camera and feel if the film is rewound or not and if it's not, manually roll it back into the canister.
If you don't think you can do this, go to a local lab and let them do it for you, they will do this with a real light bag.
I don't know if they still do or not, but Fuji cameras used to protect you from this by first taking all the film out of the canister and then winding it into the canister for every shot. This way if you opened up the camera back by accident, only the unused film would be exposed to light. The only downside really was that your shots were in backwards number order since you started at 24 or 36 instead of 1.
2007-10-10 15:09:21 · answer #2 · answered by DigiDoc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Film is remarkable good at blocking light. So only the top few frames will be ruined. But that's assuming that you closed the camera back very quickly.
I've worked in one-hour photo store. And I've seen this happen fairly often with same result.
Good Luck.
2007-10-08 21:26:55 · answer #3 · answered by Lover not a Fighter 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Good grief!
Had you bothered to read the Owner's Manual that came with the camera you would have known that the film doesn't rewind until the last frame is exposed.
2007-10-08 21:56:09 · answer #4 · answered by EDWIN 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It might have so i wouldn't keep your hopes up and i would go take more pictures.
2007-10-08 22:19:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋