Elan IIE Midroll Change

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Is there a technique to allow midroll changes with the Elan IIE. I like to do landscape work in both color and black and white...and some scenes are just NOT interesting enough for an entire roll.

-- Michael Caton (creative@ia.net), February 04, 1999

Answers

That's why Canon put a mid-roll rewind button on the camera and included a custom function which leaves the leader out.

-- Bob Atkins (bobatkins@hotmail.com), February 04, 1999.

How does mid-roll film change work?

Once you rewind with the leader out and change rolls how do you get the film back in and to the spot where you left off?

The only way I could see it is that you must have to record what frame you where on, rewind, do whatever you want with the other film, load the original film, click the shutter the number of times needed to get back to the frame you recorded.

How do you know that the film is exactly where it was originally? Do you click the shutter one more time just for good measure?

Steve

-- Steve Russo (steve.r.russo@compaq.com), April 06, 1999.


1. Set the custom function that leaves the film leader out of the cartridge (don't know right now, I set mine and forgot all about it. It's easy to pull in the leader on a full roll).

2. Deciding to change a roll, you note the number of exposures already made. Write it down somewhere.

3. Hit the film rewind button.

4. Take film out of the camera. I use a waterproof pen to write the number of exposures right on the roll. Keep it out of the DX fields. Put roll into its can, mark can clearly as "partly exposed". I keep those rolls far, far away from the fresh film.

(Shoot other roll.)

5. Take partly-exposed film, memorize number on roll, put into camera. Put camera body cap on body or make sure lens cap is on tight. Set camera on max f stop (32 or whatever), shortest time (1/4000) and keep clicking until the number of exposures already on the film is through.

Yes, I add one for safety. I'm always amazed how well this works. Take that, APS!

-- Helge Wilker (hwilker@uos.de), August 04, 1999.


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