101 ways to ruin a roll of film

A roll of expired cinestill bit the dust in the Holga pinhole as the back wouldn't stay on after not wanting to come off when I loaded it. The back fell off the other holga twice. The last time I used this one it was perfectly fine so it's just decided to be an arse now.

Avoiding Holgas is a good way to avoid ruining film :rolleyes:
 
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Well, ruined half a roll.
Being a clever so and so, I stopped the film leader from rewinding into the can on my AF P&S by watching the exposure counter decrease until it hit 0, then popped the back open, just a crack to stop the process. It worked last time!
This time, it was nowhere near 0 and, as i closed the back, it loaded to the start point on a film that had a foot of the roll already wound.
This wouldn't have been a disaster, had I checked it in a dark bag, but I had to check there and then, in the sunlight. Around 18" of film still on the spool.
 
TheTimeChamber said:
Sending a roll of Fuji Pro400H through the CT scanners at the airport is a sure fire way to ruin a roll too
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Interested in that, as I've seen a few articles with examples suggesting that the results (though variable) may not be as bad as we once expected.
 
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ChrisR said:
Interested in that, as I've seen a few articles with examples suggesting that the results (though variable) may not be as bad as we once expected.
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We had CT scanners at Gatwick and Stanstead for outward flights though if I remember correctly both return flights had X ray machines, we did not notice any ill effect from a single CT scan on Kentmere 100 or 400 in 135. Obviously B&W not colour and the intensity and or duration of the scan may depend on the operator, that I don't know.
 
Recently flew to Spain. CT scanner on the way out so got a hand check except for the roll loaded in the Hasselblad. An expired Provia 100 which I expect to be ruined. Spanish folks were happy to hand check on the return journey too even though it was normal X ray.
 
ChrisR said:
Interested in that, as I've seen a few articles with examples suggesting that the results (though variable) may not be as bad as we once expected.
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It ended up very grainy compared to what I was expecting, but that may also be due to it being expired.

I sent through an Ilford iso 80 isograph roll and it was unaffected
 
Pressed on the back of the snapic in the wrong place so it decides the film has finished a long time before the end and wound it back. Because it was sub 10 frames shot I decided to re-load it and over shoot the first third or so....

Will be next week before finding out what a dog's dinner it is :ROFLMAO:
 
I forgot about this thread. I recently went through a roll of ORWO UN54, a film i rather like, Definitely had some nice photos on there, definitely (you can see where this is going!). Anyway, I use a Rondinax because of injury issues; this time the guillotine wouldn't cut the film, so I had to unload the canister in the dark bag to cut it, and apparently I failed to wind it in properly, so everything went round the outside of the reel., all wrapped round the previous layer! So no dev or fix, so no images, apart from half a dozen right at the start. Grrrr...ump!
 
It turns out that (unplanned!) triptych’s don’t look particularly great when they’re half-overlapped

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I took my converted Wirgin Edixa Stereo up to York a few weekends ago and shot a couple of rolls of Kodak Gold. Even though I converted the camera myself, to shoot 24x84mm pano, I somehow completely forgot about the double wind and happily shot 30 frames on a single roll without even thinking about how that isn’t possible!
 
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