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I've had a bit of disaster of a day. Somewhat unusually for a Sunday my lad wasn't playing rugby and the weather looked reasonable so I persuaded him to come caving to get a shot for the FPOTY "Wet" theme. Things went wrong from the outset when in the cave when I got the Pentax ME out of the Peli case an found that the battery was dead which of course meant that I couldn't set the shutter speed. However it's a cave, its dark and while I was using flashes we were at the bottom of the entrance shaft and I was hoping for a bit of ambient so I put it on "B" and fired a load of shots as guesses. I packed up the kit and we exited the cave, went for bite to eat and then came home. On unpacking the gear I found that the Peli case had leaked! I can only suppose that I got something trapped under the seal but there was a fair amount of water in the bottom of the case.
The main priority was to save the camera so I rewound the film (which was stiff and making a squeaking noise) and set about mopping out the camera, only time will tell if that's OK. However I had also taken some shots on that film in a different cave taken on Wednesday evening and all in all I would like to know if there is anything I can do to save the film. It's colour so I can't process it myself but I could get it out of the can, on to a spiral and into a dev tank but then I'm not sure it would dry. It probably needs a least a good wash (the water on it will not be clean plus dust etc.). It's a fair amount of effort to go and reshoot (plus finding the time) and I guess if I leave it to dry in the can it will just stick together...
Any thoughts? Is it beyond recovery?
The main priority was to save the camera so I rewound the film (which was stiff and making a squeaking noise) and set about mopping out the camera, only time will tell if that's OK. However I had also taken some shots on that film in a different cave taken on Wednesday evening and all in all I would like to know if there is anything I can do to save the film. It's colour so I can't process it myself but I could get it out of the can, on to a spiral and into a dev tank but then I'm not sure it would dry. It probably needs a least a good wash (the water on it will not be clean plus dust etc.). It's a fair amount of effort to go and reshoot (plus finding the time) and I guess if I leave it to dry in the can it will just stick together...
Any thoughts? Is it beyond recovery?