A Lucky Roll – An Accidentally Double-Exposed Roll

If, like me you are shooting film and shooting film at an event, well as you might know, sometimes you make mistakes.

I recently bought a camera, a SLR and added a motor drive on to it, not really to use it, but just because it had bigger batteries. I ended up using it primarily to rewind the film. The only thing with that method, is that the camera left a small portion of the exposed film outside it’s canister, and in in the rush (and alcohol) I didn’t pay enough attention to what I was doing and ended up shooting the same roll of film back through another camera, thus making a roll of double exposures. As you might know, quite often this ends up badly. At least, that’s what usually happens.

I’m also the kind of person who loves sitting on film not developing it, sometimes for months (unless it’s for a job) and hating the process too. I do it by 8 rolls at the time. So you can imagine my surprise when I scanned this one… …

No, no, no, no, WTF!

Yes, my dear friends, this film is a gold mine of missed opportunities… but, to my happy surprise, it is also one of a few solid keepers.

I am sure not everyone will like them, but some of you might. That aside thought, I also wanted to speak about my routine when shooting, as more often than not, this helps me stay out of trouble. Usually, I have new films in a right pocket of my cargos, and when reloading one of my cameras, I put the used film in the left pocket, thus rendering the possibility of making double exposures by accident nigh on zero.

Except, of course, for this roll…

So, I will let you judge the results, but for my taste, I think was extremely lucky! Please feel free to let me know if you agree, or otherwise!

And… the best for last:

I hope you enjoyed the shots!

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