Surely if you know your camera, you can feel the gears
stripping themselves out. Then you can stop what
you're doing and wind the film back. I have never had
a problem with not getting an extra photo anyway, on
all my cameras SLR or non-SLR. And I have never
stripped the gears out. I think it is not so much the
length of the film as what you do with the start of
it. I never wind it on more than I need to before
closing the back. Just wind until you are sure it is
on the cogs properly. Then (on a manual wind only) you
can often sneak one photo in before your camera
actually says 1. A single wind-on is usually enough to
clear all the exposed film. Or you can do ˝ wind
before you close the back, and 1˝ after closing the
back.
Jody.
--- "Paris, Leonard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Routinely getting extra frames is nice but suppose
> that you get a roll that
> is just a bit shorter than normal and you only have
> 36 1/2 frames. The
> modern cameras would have no problem with this but
> some older cameras will
> strip their gears when a person tries to advance a
> frame past the end of the
> roll. I don't know how many folks broke their
> cameras trying to squeeze out
> one more shot but it did cost more to fix the camera
> than a person could
> gain getting an extra frame or two.
>
> So, the problem is not one that needs addressing,
> except at the user end.
> Just be aware of what you are doing and, if it
> happens again, you'll know
> why it happened.
>
> Len
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