Rewound film backwards, eek!

mooncaked · 05-29-2011, 12:36 AM

I feel like such a ditz -- finished the roll of film in my Pentax ME tonight so I rewound the film, but did so in the middle of a distracting conversation and failed to realize I was winding the rewind crank in the direction opposite of the arrow. The film made a squeaky/pained noise during the whole process, but it did all end up back in the cassette and came out of the camera just fine.

Did I kill the film? Is it still worth developing? ):

wlachan · 05-29-2011, 03:38 AM

I think it should be alright. The fact that it went all the way back into the cassette meaning it didn't split.

05-29-2011, 12:36 AM	#1
mooncaked New Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Washington Posts: 2	Rewound film backwards, eek! I feel like such a ditz -- finished the roll of film in my Pentax ME tonight so I rewound the film, but did so in the middle of a distracting conversation and failed to realize I was winding the rewind crank in the direction opposite of the arrow. The film made a squeaky/pained noise during the whole process, but it did all end up back in the cassette and came out of the camera just fine. Did I kill the film? Is it still worth developing? ):

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05-29-2011, 03:38 AM	#2
wlachan Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Canada Photos: Albums Posts: 2,625	I think it should be alright. The fact that it went all the way back into the cassette meaning it didn't split.

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