Is there a foolproof method of knowing it's loaded?

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What a plonker!

Risked going to the Norfolk coast today with a light meter, one MF camera, two lenses, a loaded film cassette and a new film still wrapped.

Only when I got my 18th shot off the 12 ex film and walking through shade did I see for myself how it had happenned.:bang::bang::bang::bang::bang::bang::bang:

I keep an elastic band round my unloaded camera bodies. I didn't this time though. :bonk::bonk::bonk::bonk::bonk:

Maybe I should store them with the backs open??
 
Oh dear! Now hands up who hasn't check a film was loaded with the rewind lever before using the camera...yeah I know some cameras don't have a rewind lever :)
 
I'll probaly get stoned for this but, the only cameras I leave with film in are the ones with a little window in the back where I can SEE that there's film in there. Any of the others, I try and shoot the roll up in a session - easy enough with 120 film - or just waste the end of the film - film stock's (relatively) cheap, missing a shot because you've got a empty camera is priceless!
 
i check in my darkbag before i go out, or i only put the memo clip on when i know the film is in :D
 
TheBigYin said:
I'll probaly get stoned for this but, the only cameras I leave with film in are the ones with a little window in the back where I can SEE that there's film in there. Any of the others, I try and shoot the roll up in a session - easy enough with 120 film - or just waste the end of the film - film stock's (relatively) cheap, missing a shot because you've got a empty camera is priceless!
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I tend to do the opposite, my cameras all sit with film in them so they are ready to go whenever i am. I reckon I get through a roll quickly enough that it isn't sitting there too long.
 
fixedimage said:
I tend to do the opposite, my cameras all sit with film in them so they are ready to go whenever i am. I reckon I get through a roll quickly enough that it isn't sitting there too long.
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Yes, that could work. But that's 30 rolls of film. Which is only 18 more than right now. Sounds like possible plan. :clap::clap::clap:

Or to quote from a moment at work today when something cropped up about 40% staff absence over the Christmas period. And there are 20 of us. Ahem, someone and it definitely wasn't me started with "well, if it was 50% that'd be half of us and 40% is just less than 50%...." I should mock: I'm the "no film" photographer. Doh!
 
What camera is it? I don't think it's possible to shoot with an empty magazine with my blad or RB67. Generally speaking though an exposure counter showing '0' with a MF camera indicates an empty mag or a loaded film which hasn't been wound to the first exposure.
 
Decide you're going to do some very specific photography, say low-light action sports for which you want to use some high ISO film.

I can absolutely guarantee that at that point the camera will be loaded with a fresh, barely started roll of Ektar.
 
Alastair said:
Decide you're going to do some very specific photography, say low-light action sports for which you want to use some high ISO film.

I can absolutely guarantee that at that point the camera will be loaded with a fresh, barely started roll of Ektar.
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I reckon at that point i'd say "Screw film - i'll shoot digital" :LOL: - hey - I never professed to be a purist :naughty:
 
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