When removing a roll of film mid roll and then reinserting later to finish shooting does the EOS 1v write over the original film data on the film itself? For instance it numbers the rolls you shoot on the film itself and in the memory in the camera. Does it write over the data in the memory when you fire off the already exposed frames? (Lens cap on of course.)

-- Dave Sims (dsims1304@earthlink.net), November 17, 2000

Answers

Good question!

My guess is that the camera thinks you're putting in a new roll, so it overwrites the film leader with the new roll ID number, records underexposed frames as you fire them off with the lens cap on, and then starts recording actual data. So for the same roll, you'd have 2 sets of data because the camera doesn't know you put the same roll into it again and from my recollection, there is no way to enter this info into the Camera so it would know.

I'm on my 6th roll in my 1V and I have the Link software as well. When I come across this situation, I'll update this forum thread again.

-- Susan Butler (sue@butler22.com), May 29, 2001.