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I've shot a lot of pictures lately, on actual film rather than digital. But I'm learning some lessons the hard way:
1) When using the Holga, it is important to make sure that the film counter window is set to 12, not 16; otherwise you end up with a long role of overlapping images, like I did with my whole first roll. Expensive mistake, especially when I realized that developing and proofing a roll of 120 film costs almost as much as the camera did.
2) When you get to the end of the roll in the Lomo LC-A, don't try to advance it to see if you squeeze "just one more" picture on the roll; otherwise you break the film off in the camera and are therefore unable to wind it back into the canister. That's what I did with my second roll in the Lomo. Not as costly as mistake #1, but it did cost me the 36 (37?) exposures I'd spent the entire afternoon driving all around the city to get.
On the bright side, I did send off my first Lomo roll today, and dropped off two more rolls from the Holga yesterday (one black and white, one color). Fingers crossed for a few good shots...
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Shortly after I wrote this, I opened the Lomo to remove the ruined film and reload, and found, to my surprise, that the film had been rolled into the canister after all. So either I didn't do what I thought I did, or the film actually wasn't advancing while I was shooting the roll, or pixies came and fixed it while I was sleeping. I like the last option best.
Posted by Dawn at February 05, 2003 04:22 PM
When you rip film like that, there is a way to salvage it.
In a dark room, like a bathroom (seal the door at the bottom with a towel or do this at nite) open your camera remove the film and place it in a black film canister.
Bring the canister to your photo processor, make sure you tell them that the roll isn't in a cartridge.
Hope for the best.
Posted on February 09, 2003 01:51 PST
So I just got an email from Snapfish (where the Lomo rolls are being developed) and figured out what actually happened with the first roll. It never got exposed; the film must have not been advancing the entire time I thought I was shooting pics. That's too bad, as I took some really neat photos that day. Oh well, live and learn! It's not like the Lomo book didn't warn me about that possibility; from now on I'll always check.
As for the Holgas, the first roll turned out awful. Not a single worthwile shot. But I have 2 more rolls to pick up this week, so hopefully something will be good on those.
Posted on February 11, 2003 13:02 PST
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