How easy is it to feed a 35mm film back into the film holder

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I may have unintentionally forgotten to press the button that allows for the film to be wound back into its holder, and being a dunce, was trying to wind it back in a hurry.

But I wound it the wrong way, and now the film doesn't wind back

What can I do?
 
I'd just put the entire camera into the changing bag with the tank and spiral, and remove the film from the camera, strip it from the film canister and load straight into the spiral.

Of course if you were taking it to snappysnaps (other film processors are available) then I appreciate that's not an option.
 
The-Darkroom have told me to do the best I can with trying to get it into the canister (the word I couldn't remember whilst trying to describe what I had done) and then warp it in tin foil...I may put it in a sandwich bag first/empty 35mm canister.

I can see this going wrong lol
 
maybe the tail end of the film (the bit attached to the spool, within the canister) has become detached when the film was rewound the wring way ?? so, you turn the spool and nothing happens?? Or, in turning the spool the wrong way the films folded and jammed the spool, so it won't revolve any further... all kinds of potential for stuff to go wrong really.
 
TheBigYin said:
maybe the tail end of the film (the bit attached to the spool, within the canister) has become detached when the film was rewound the wring way ?? so, you turn the spool and nothing happens?? Or, in turning the spool the wrong way the films folded and jammed the spool, so it won't revolve any further... all kinds of potential for stuff to go wrong really.
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I would go along and do what you suggested in your first post or if the film is destined for a lab and the OP has no darkroom/ changing bag facilities, take the whole camera there and ask them to sort it out.
 
Asha said:
I would go along and do what you suggested in your first post or if the film is destined for a lab and the OP has no darkroom/ changing bag facilities, take the whole camera there and ask them to sort it out.
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Well - that'd be my option of choice - When I used to help out in a high street independent minilab, we regularly had people bring cameras in with films that "wouldn't rewind" and I had many a struggle with them in the changing bag, out in the back room...
 
TheBigYin said:
Well - that'd be my option of choice - When I used to help out in a high street independent minilab, we regularly had people bring cameras in with films that "wouldn't rewind" and I had many a struggle with them in the changing bag, out in the back room...
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LOL, I can just imagine your thoughts when you were handed another "jammed" camera......."For ***** sake not again!!"....That's what I would be saying under my breath I think! :D :D
 
Asha said:
LOL, I can just imagine your thoughts when you were handed another "jammed" camera......."For ***** sake not again!!"....That's what I would be saying under my breath I think! :D :D
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Actually most of the time I was thinking "I BET they've opened the bloody back of the camera and screwed the film anyway!!" - which a good 40% of them had... We didn't care that much, any job like that had to be "hand processed" rather than fed through the minilab, so we got a "Hand Process Premium" charge from it... even if it was C41, once the film was "loose" in the changing bag, we took the view that it may be damaged or split, so there was no way we'd machine process it. So, it was a tank job...
 
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