I finally finished up my first roll of film in my SP500. It was expired Kodak 100 Tmax. The expiration date was Nov 2009.
There was a time after 4 shots when the camera started making a disgusting clacking noise when I would advance the film. At shot #6 I opened and closed the camera back in a photo bag in my closet with the lights off. It was fine after that. No clacking noise. I must have reseated something but I didn't touch the film.
How could the film skip off the teeth of the take up system?
Rewinding the film was met with some resistance. It was stiff but doable. At some point I heard a snap. I had no idea at the time if this was the film snapping or something breaking in the camera. The rewind lever suddenly became very easy to turn. I thought something broke in the camera.
I put the camera back into the photo bag, opened it up, and ran my finger along the film canister. Nothing was protruding so I figured that all the film was wound back into the canister. When I opened up the photo bag and took my camera out I saw that there was a section of film still on the take up spool! It was tightly wound against the spool and it only got as far as the toothed advance spool.
Thankfully it's only the first few frames but it's sad because I thought I had some very nice shots of my kids in those frames!
Looking closer at the fragment of film I see that the sprocket holes in the film are damaged. I hope the pictures come out clear enough.
Any ideas? Comments? Messages of hope?
Originally posted by 6BQ5 
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