101 ways to ruin a roll of film

One way to ruin a wet print

Forget to thoroughly wash your hands after removing some prints from the fixer before picking up a blank sheet to print onto. Cue the fixer on your hands doing it's job very well and knackering a print

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Another couple of ways I've knackered prints

2) Get a phone call while in the darkroom
3) Forget to take my watch off while fine focussing, dents in the paper and fogging from the illuminated dial
4) Forget to close the paper box before turning the light on to evaluate some prints, you know where this ones going...
 
Forgot to press the little button to wind the film back, resulting in a torn film.

That goes doubly for the zenit ttl
 
Went for an old classic today, loaded the RB back the wrong way round so nicely exposed some good quality ilford backing paper... Really need to get some more time with this camera.
 
Thought I'd risk a couple more rolls in my Rollei C-41 kit that's been in use intermittantly since last August. One roll looks ok, but the other is completely blank apart from the frame numbers and a single frame that looks ok. I've no idea why I took a single shot on a roll of Kodak gold, then rolled it up and put it in my "To Dev" pile.
 
Don't know what I did this time, another Rb67 disaster. Two, from 8 weeks ago, came out fine but the rest of the roll, I shot 6 weeks ago, was blank...

At least I got two, they weren't anything important just a bit of a walk to practice with the camera, if I'd known it would be blank I'd not have bothered fitting the back, FP4 is a bit dear for that.

I've dry run all the speeds and they look fine, I'm slightly concerned as I've shot a roll of slide and colour since the aforementioned walk but not had them developed yet.

Had a bit more of a play and the only thing I can think is that the mirror lock setting had gotten switched so it sounded like it was firing but wasn't.
 
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it is probably that

two of my fails, shutter stuck open on a ensign folder and i didnt spot it. luckily was just ghettoing some 35mm through it

not having the film properly fixed in place after loading, it came loose and didnt get wound on... took about 35 pics before i poked about in a dark bag to find out why the roll hadnt ended...
 
This has probably been mentioned before...

Bulk loading the film and used very little tape to stick it to the spool. Film ripped off when I advanced onto the last frame.... wound it back in(I though I did) then opened the back only to ruin half of the roll. Developed it and still managed 20 good exposures so not totally devastated!
 
robhooley167 said:
I think that joke was made back on page one :p
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I think you'r probably right, in fact why not rename the thread "101 Ways to Rob Hooley a Roll of Film"?

If we all start using it often enough it may become common parlance for cocking anything up..

eg I've just dropped my camera, it's completely Rob Hooley'd

or

An Olympic gymnast falls off the pommel horse and the commentator could say "Well, he's made a complete Rob Hooley of that"

or

Your mate's just gone to the bar and just as he's carrying the pints back to the table he trips, spilling the beer and covering everyone with ale, you can shout "You complete and utter Hooley"

Do you think it'll catch on?
 
RaglanSurf said:
I think you'r probably right, in fact why not rename the thread "101 Ways to Rob Hooley a Roll of Film"?

If we all start using it often enough it may become common parlance for cocking anything up..

eg I've just dropped my camera, it's completely Rob Hooley'd

or

An Olympic gymnast falls off the pommel horse and the commentator could say "Well, he's made a complete Rob Hooley of that"

or

Your mate's just gone to the bar and just as he's carrying the pints back to the table he trips, spilling the beer and covering everyone with ale, you can shout "You complete and utter Hooley"

Do you think it'll catch on?
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Amazing idea! From now on every terrible photo I take (which in all fairness is most of my photos) shall be referred to as 'Hooley-esque'. :D
 
PMN said:
Amazing idea! From now on every terrible photo I take (which in all fairness is most of my photos) shall be referred to as 'Hooley-esque'. :D
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I approve, we may have created a whole new genre (y)
 
Oh here we go...
 
"Hooley'd".

That's officially stuck.

Can we start a thread of Hooley'd exposures? I've got a few shafted frames of LF that I can scan and post!
 
Woodsy said:
"Hooley'd".

That's officially stuck.

Can we start a thread of Hooley'd exposures? I've got a few shafted frames of LF that I can scan and post!
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Go on then (y)
 
What about how not to to see if the film is ruined by traveling 8 miles to Asda for dev and forgetting to put the film in your pocket.
 
Oh Brian....was this an age-related thing do you think?
 
Dig out your RZ67 for the first time in ages, shoot some macro shots with the polaroid back, replace with the back loaded with Portra and forget to reset the winder switch so that the next three shots are all exposed on to the same frame. :rolleyes:

I have got a couple of nice polaroids and should have a post for the hooley'd shots thread though - every cloud and all that :)
 
It's a manual camera you plonker it doesn't know that your about to blow it 5 stops over!
 
Shoot a roll of bulk rolled film, finish it and rewind it. Open the back of the camera only to find the tape had come off the end of the film and its there staring at you in the take up spool! I thought it felt a bit light when I was rewinding it!
 
excalibur2 said:
What about how not to to see if the film is ruined by traveling 8 miles to Asda for dev and forgetting to put the film in your pocket.
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Brian, you never told us before,when you drone on about cheap Asda dev and scans that you had £3.00 of petrol costs as well. :)
 
Might have just ruined an unexposed roll of portra.

I wanted to swap it out of the back, so popped it in dark bag and started to respool it to the source side. After I'd completely unwound it I realised I'd gone the wrong way, that's not the worst of it. I noticed after I'd got it rewound to the source that it not velcroed the flap on the bag...

Worst of it was, the roll wasn't wound on that far I could have opened the back in the light and done it without the bloody bag.
 
steveo_mcg said:
Might have just ruined an unexposed roll of portra.

I wanted to swap it out of the back, so popped it in dark bag and started to respool it to the source side. After I'd completely unwound it I realised I'd gone the wrong way, that's not the worst of it. I noticed after I'd got it rewound to the source that it not velcroed the flap on the bag...

Worst of it was, the roll wasn't wound on that far I could have opened the back in the light and done it without the bloody bag.
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Not velcroing / zipping the bag been there , BUT the film was actually ok , purely by luck of it being handled well away from the opening

As for winding the wrong way ....:rolleyes: would expect nothing less of you steven! :D
 
Look at the massive dev chart before mixing up the dev, otherwise there's a chance that the dilution you've used isn't listed for the film you've loaded on to the spool.

Not that it'll matter when you can't keep the temperature down to 20C and you mess up the subtraction of time to compensate for the stronger dilution anyway. :rolleyes:
 
Asha said:
Not velcroing / zipping the bag been there , BUT the film was actually ok , purely by luck of it being handled well away from the opening

As for winding the wrong way ....:rolleyes: would expect nothing less of you steven! :D
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:mad::p:D

Not sure what to use that roll on now, can't really trust it.
 
Asha said:
coffee tin pinhole..................can't ruin the film anymore if you use it in that:p
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Oh, that's not a bad idea, maybe not the coffee can but I can run it through the noon. I've got a back log of colour I need to get developed.

I really must get back to the coffee can...
 
I have screwed film up so many ways!

  1. Poured C41 bleach into the fix tank
  2. loaded a 120 film back to front in a film back. Nicely exposed paper.
  3. Not added enough developer solution to a tank
  4. The usual "crescents" from bending film
  5. Rolled a 120 onto 620 spindle, but then back onto a 120(?), before loading it in a 620 box camera. It rolled in the camera, but I had to seriously force it around.
  6. I use to pour away reusable chemicals - I've got better at avoiding that.
  7. Washed my electronic laser thermometer. It stopped working.
  8. Where'd I put the bloody stopwatch this time?
  9. Wet digital stopwatch
  10. Had film unspool from a reel in the tank. Pulled out the reel - empty. Film wrapped around inside of tank.
Not bad for a novice.
 
Well that was disappointing. Dropped a roll of Ektar into local developers earlier. Just back from collecting it and there's nothing to show - it got mangled in their machine and ended up overdeveloped. The roll is mostly from a wedding last weekend, with the other pics being the young fella spending time in the garden with his grandparents who were over from Ireland. Shop was very apologetic and replaced the roll with two rolls of Ektar, but still, it's pretty disappointing.
 
Hey that IS a shame, Brian. It's one thing when film is ruined by one's own foolish efforts, but when the pros do it, it's a lot worse. It's not as if shots are always (or even often) repeatable...
 
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