 Lisamarie Busch |
film counter missing and manual rewind wont work hi i have a canon rebel 2000 eos camera. I just changed the batteries (checked several times that they are put in right) and now when I turn my camera on (it was in mid roll when I changed the batteries) the film counter wont show up on the lcd screen (everything else does tho) and when I take a pic it goes thru the motions of taking a pic but since I can see the # of pics I dont know if it actually took one. I only had about 13 pics left on the roll I should be done by now. when I try to manaully advance the roll it wont advance. when I first changed the batteries I accidently opened the film door just the tiniest bit (just clicked opened then closed it) will that expose my film? is the whole roll ruined?
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Maynard McKillen |
Dear Lisamarie: If I remember right, the Rebel 2000 film transport is different from that found in most 35mm SLRs. The camera advances a new roll to the last frame, say, frame 36 on a 36 exposure roll, and then "rewinds" each newly exposed frame into the film cassette. The film counter thus counts down, and tells you how many pictures you have yet to take, not how many you have taken. (One benefit to this approach is that if the back door is opened in midroll, photos you already took are safely stored in the film cassette, and only the unused film is fogged.) Leave a question for the tech reps at www.canon.com, who can give you a definitive answer, but perhaps something like this happened: You opened the back door, which may have fogged a few unused frames, but did not affect any photos you've already taken. It's possible that the roll then needed to be removed and replaced with a fresh roll to help the camera frame counter reset. It's also possible that when you opened and shut the back door, the camera behaved as though you'd put in a new roll, and "advanced" it to the last frame. (Did you hear the distinctive winding sound when you shut the door after accidentally opening it?) The camera could have a hard time determining the length of the roll and registering that number, since it would not be a value the camera customarily reads, i.e., 12, 24, or 36. If by chance you were able from this point to continue taking photos, it's possible you double-exposed some frames you already took, unless you kept the lens cap on and set the shutter speed manually to, say, 1/30th of a second or higher. (With the lens cap on, no light reaches the film through the lens, and at a somewhat arbitrarily high shutter speed like 1/30th, no light sneaks in through the viewfinder, a remote possibiity, and fogs the film by leaking around the raised mirror, another remote possibility.) It's possible the camera has not actually been taking photos and advancing the film when you press the shutter button, a possible safety feature, since it cannot seemingly determine what frame you are on, to hear you describe it. You might, if Canon does not have other suggestions, simply remove the roll, by hand if necessary, and put in a new one. It might be wise to consider this new roll a test roll, used to determine if the camera has some kind of reset procedure. Perhaps this roll would best be an inexpensive off-brand roll of film, which you don't expect to use to take valued images, but merely to see if the camera is back to normal. You may, after all, have to remove it in midroll or otherwise tinker with it to discover that either the camera is now working normally or that something more serious is amiss. So perhaps your roll is double-exposed, but perhaps not. Perhaps only the unused frames in the roll are fogged. You'll find out when you develop the roll, and perhaps you'll ask the lab to merely, develop the negatives, and not make any prints. If some frames are good, they can just print those ones.
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Lisamarie Busch |
thanks so much for the detailed answer! I actually figured out what was wrong. thank u so much! and ps I always wondered about opening the back door if the film would be exposed or not. but now that I know the pics taken are in the canister they are safe thats good to know. thanks again
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