HELP!!! :) Forgot to change plate from 120 to 220...Film is loaded. What to do??

[haring]

Don't laugh, please! I have just loaded a fresh roll of 220 film into my Contax 645. I just realized that I have forgotten to change the plate from 120 size film to 220 size film? The camera has already loaded the film and ready to shoot. What can I do?

Thanks!

[PeterAit]

Go into a totally dark room, open the camera, remove the film, change the plate, replace the film.

[haring]

i will do it tonight!!!

[wolfnowl]

By totally dark he means you go in, turn off the lights and wait five or ten minutes.  If you can see your hand in front of your face, it's not dark enough.  I still have two darkroom 'changing' bags somewhere in a camera case for just such an emergency.

Mike.

[ErikKaffehr]

Hi,

Honestly I would just throw away the film. It's a few dollars.

Best regards
Erik

Don't laugh, please! I have just loaded a fresh roll of 220 film into my Contax 645. I just realized that I have forgotten to change the plate from 120 size film to 220 size film? The camera has already loaded the film and ready to shoot. What can I do?

Thanks!

[TH_Alpa]

Hi,

Honestly I would just throw away the film. It's a few dollars.

Best regards
Erik

+1
Thierry

[feppe]

Honestly I would just throw away the film. It's a few dollars.

-1. I wouldn't throw a few dollars in the trash, no matter how weak the dollar is.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

-1...

+1

[Wayne Fox]

-1. I wouldn't throw a few dollars in the trash, no matter how weak the dollar is.

Well, assuming you don't need to shoot until you can get the camera to a completely dark environment (which isn't that easy) ... certainly wouldn't pass up a paying job for the sake of saving a few bucks.

If it's for something like a wedding, I'd just go ahead and shoot it. Certainly jobs that require larger prints prob not, but guessing you'd really never see it in 8x10 or smaller.

[uaiomex]

Haring: Save the Planet!

[Cineski]

Just open it and take the film of w/ both reels.  Change the plate and re-thread the film.  You might lose an image or two but otherwise you're fine.  Trust me, I know 

[lowep]

take off the film back, throw it in the trash, buy a digital back

or, alternatively, throw the whole Contax 645 system in the trash...

[DanielStone]

take off the film back, throw it in the trash, buy a digital back

or, alternatively, throw the whole Contax 645 system in the trash...

that's got to be the most ignorant answer to any legitimate question I've ever read on this forum...

[SecondFocus]

I have done it more than once. Pop it open, loosen the film, turn the plate, close it up. Roll past a frame or two. However if I were shooting something of consequence as opposed to maybe just a casual project... I would just roll the film up and save it for something else and load a new one.

[Bryan Conner]

take off the film back, throw it in the trash, buy a digital back

or, alternatively, throw the whole Contax 645 system in the trash...

I agree with Daniel's post above:  This is a very ignorant response at best.

[John R Smith]

To return to the topic . . .

Strangely, the 120/220 pressure plate angst probably doesn't matter too much. On my old Hassy C12 magazines, you can use them for 120 or 220 film (by a rather kludgy workaround involving resetting the frame counter after 12 shots).

But for both film types you use the same pressure plate, just as it comes. And the results seem fine    So much for theory . . .

John

[feppe]

that's got to be the most ignorant answer to any legitimate question I've ever read on this forum...

Don't feed the troll.

[lowep]

Don't feed the troll.

+1