DEAR CANON I have this wanderfull 5/EOS camera. it's great and i enjoy it very much - thank to you.

I was shooting 13 pictures, rolled back the film. switch to black and white film - shooting 36 film and finished the film. now... i want to switch back to the colored film, shooting 13 picture without expose it to light and continue from the point i stopped. i tried to cover the lense with it's cover and the pressing the shooting button - it didn't succeed. i tried to enter a dark room and pressing the button again - didn't succeed.

what is the way to do that and to go to the exact point of the last picture (the end of the 13'th picture)

THANK YOU VERY MUCH SAGI.

-- sagi moran (moransagi@walla.co.il), January 20, 2002

Answers

Sagi:

I change film all the time, and if I haven't shot a full roll, remove the film from the camera when I get home as part of my camera cleaning regimentation. What you have to do to re-load the film after you've put it in is, 1) put the EOS 5 in Manual and dial in 1/8000 shutter speed, 2) put the lens cap on any lens you have attached, 3) switch the lens to Manual Focus, 4) cover the viewfinder so no extraneous light gets in, 5) push the shutter button until the film is advanced to the frame number where you left off.

Some people will advise you to leave an extra frame in between where you left off, and the number you're going to start on, but I haven't had any problems with over-lapping exposures.

From your description, looks like you had the idea of it, but didn't switch the lens into Manual Focus mode so it was trying to focus with the lens cap on...and couldn't.

-- Gary Russell (gr_russell@earthlink.net), January 20, 2002.

First, the film leader needs to be out in order to load. Load the film, LEAVE THE LENS CAP ON, set the lens AF switch to manual, set Mode to "M", adjust apeture and shutter speed to maximum, and then advance the film to 13. (I always skip a frame, to 14 in this case, just to be safe)

-- kenneth katz (socks@bestweb.net), January 20, 2002.