First off sorry for the bad terminology but I'm a newbie and would really appreciate some help - I've bought my first film camera, it is an Olympus MJU zoom 70 from an as-is sale and everything seemed to be working fine.
I took 9 shots with it already but the lens got stuck while I was playing with the zoom functions. I couldn't turn the camera off, and I read online that I should open the film door to reset the whole camera. I pressed the release door button (while holding the door down so the door wouldn't open and films inside wouldn't get exposed to light), and it managed to "unstick" my camera lens, but I didn't know that it would reset the film counter back to 1.
The counter on a film camera is just for your convenience - to help you assess how many pictures have been taken on the roll and thus, how many can still be taken. The actual frame that will be exposed on the film will depend on how much the film has mechanically advanced.
The Olympus mju-70 has auto-load feature, so quite likely it advanced the film by a couple of frames when you closed the lid. So you can keep in mind that there are about 11 frames used on the roll, in addition to what the counter shows. Indicated film capacity is not a precise number - often there are some extra frames. The mju-70 will automatically rewind the film when it cannot advance it after taking a picture.
The Company You Keep is a 2012 American political thriller film produced, directed by and starring Robert Redford. The script was written by Lem Dobbs based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Neil Gordon.[3] The film was produced by Nicolas Chartier (Voltage Pictures), Redford and Bill Holderman.
After film festival screenings in September 2012, the film's first theatrical release was in Italy in December 2012. A U.S. limited release began in April 2013, followed by wider release later in the month and releases in various foreign markets through December 2013. The film received a mixed reception from the critics in the U.S. but a generally favorable one abroad. It grossed $5.1 million in the U.S. and Canada, with foreign sales reaching $14.5 million.[2]
Produced by Nicolas Chartier (Voltage Pictures), Redford and Bill Holderman,[4][5] the movie filmed in Vancouver in autumn 2011.[6][7] The film's "moody ... contemporary" score is by Cliff Martinez, its editor is Mark Day, and cinematography is by Adriano Goldman.[8] The first trailer for the movie was released on August 30, 2012.[9]
The film premiered on September 6, 2012, at the 69th Venice International Film Festival[10] and then played at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2012.[11][12] Sony Pictures Classics distributed the movie in the United States,[4] and StudioCanal acquired the United Kingdom distribution rights.[13]
The Company You Keep was released in Italian theatres in December 2012,[14] earning more than $4.8 million there.[15] Its limited release in the U.S. began in New York and Los Angeles on April 5, 2013, after which it received wider North American release.[2][16] European, Australasian, South American, Middle-Eastern and Asian releases continued from April to December 2013. The first run of the film concluded in the U.S. in July 2013.[17]
The film grossed $5.1 million in the U.S. and Canada, with foreign box office sales reaching $14.5 million (excluding China), for a worldwide theatrical total of $19.6 million.[2] The Company You Keep was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 13, 2013.[18]
In early reviews from the Venice Film Festival, Variety called the film an "unabashedly heartfelt but competent tribute to 1960s idealism ... in its stolid, old-fashioned way, it satisfies an appetite, especially among mature auds, for dialogue- and character-driven drama that gets into issues without getting too bogged down in verbiage. ... There is something undeniably compelling, perhaps even romantic, about America's '60s radicals and the compromises they did or didn't make".[19] The Hollywood Reporter praised the cast, especially Sarandon and Marling, and termed the film "a tense yet admirably restrained thriller ... Adapted with clarity and intelligence ... and lent distinguishing heft by its roster of screen veterans, this gripping drama provides an absorbing reflection on the courage and cost of dissent. ... While it provides for some passing commentary on the journalistic process and the slow death of print media, making the ambitious reporter such a driving figure perhaps mutes the focus a little. ... The storytelling is nonetheless robust and thematically rich".[8]
In its U.S. release, the film received mixed reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 54%, based on 123 reviews, with an average rating of 6.10/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The Company You Keep is a (frustratingly) slow-burning thriller about very contemporary issues."[20] Time magazine wrote: "With a welcome mixture of juice and grit, the movie dramatizes the lingering conundrums of young people in the time of the Vietnam morass. ... [The film] is streaked with melancholy: a disappointment that the second American Revolution never came. ... Nonetheless, this is a pulsating drama of a man who goes on an intricate, often interior journey to outrun his past."[21] NPR's Linda Holmes called the story "undercooked" and thought that "it all seems to have been a lot of noise and running for nothing".[22] Rex Reed wrote in The New York Observer that "From ... a dazzling display of perfect performances, to the complex emotional relationships that result in guilt by association, the disparate elements in The Company You Keep are robustly collated by the keen, well-crafted direction of a master filmmaker at the top of his form."[23]
In July 2015 TCYK LLC, a US-based company, obtained a court order requiring that Sky Broadband, a UK company, disclose customer information corresponding to IP addresses that it alleged had infringed its copyright to The Company You Keep by unlawfully downloading and sharing the film on the internet during 2013. TCYK LLC then sent letters to dozens of these customers accusing them of such sharing and demanding a response, threatening "adverse costs consequences" for a failure to respond. Sky suggested that its customers contact for assistance Citizens Advice, an organization critical of this practice, known as a "speculative invoicing claim".[24] TCYK LLC later sent a follow-up letter to Sky customers offering to settle the claim for a proposed amount of money and other conditions. BBC News reported that the file could have been shared by someone using a customer's wi-fi signal.[25]
The 36th Annual Virginia Film Festival will take place from October 25-29, 2023, in Charlottesville. For more information on VAFF and its year-round programs, visit virginiafilmfestival.org. The 2023 Virginia Film Festival is presented by The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation.
Sadly, I removed everything from the fridge, threw out all the wet cardboard boxes and dried off the film as best I could. The unexposed 120 film of course was sealed in those foil wrappers so those were safe. But some of the 35mm somehow got moisture inside the plastic canisters. And the film that was exposed and no longer packaged, pretty much instantly ruined.
Hundreds of dollars worth of film now unable to be used for important work because there was no way of knowing if condensation had occurred inside on the film or not. Nearly an entire mini-fridge of film reduced to Lomography experimentation.
But I learned my lesson. I bought a big box of gallon sized Ziploc bags and about a hundred packets of silica gel. I slowly replenished my film stash and bagged and organized everything and built the whole sorry mess back up again.
I keep the film safely organized in a kitchen cabinet now, or in my camera bags, where it belongs. No thaw period required before I load the film. No maintenance of replacing bags and packets every few months. And no excess film expiring in a dark corner. No wasted electricity. No fear of potential condensation related issues. And an extra bit of space in my house where the film fridge once stood.
Consumer grade, black and white and low ISO films can survive at room temperature for several years without any noticeable degradation at all. Hell, leave them in your boiling hot car for a couple weeks. Even professional color and high speed films will perform perfectly after months at normal room temperature. Instant film and the built-in battery can be damaged if frozen or kept too cold.
As with my desire to rid myself of all excess cameras and commit to only a few quality ones, ridding myself of all excess film has kept my results predictable and more consistent in style. So instead of wondering how/if something will turn out, I KNOW it will turn out.
My thing is I panic buy film out of scarcity. I started shooting film around 10 years ago, and much of the film I can find on ebay has the same expiration dates as the ones I found on ebay 10 years ago. Some are even earlier expiration dates as people comb through leftovers from years gone by. And then in the past couple of years Superia 800 was discontinued. I wish I had thought to stock it up when it was around $15 for 3 rolls. I think your logic is excellent for back when film was mega-common, but not in 2021 when announcements of further stocks being discontinued continue to roll in
This article was intended less for someone such as yourself who is deliberately using expired film and more for folks whose intention is it is to shoot film but end up stockpiling it inadvertently and potentially cause unexpected problems with their photos as a result.
Cindy Gano owns Gano Inc., a wardrobe and costume supply shop that serves the film industry in Atlanta. Once the strikes started, the shop lost nearly all business and reduced hours to an "appointment only" schedule for in-store shopping. The business is surviving off loans for now, but some companies are on the verge of closing down.
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