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Thanks for the reply. No! I really didn't. I was always aware of how many shots I had left and once the 36th one was taken I couldn't advance it anymore. It was never hard to advance the film.
And I must have done something horrible as it was further wound than the photo, it was all cleanly up at the right hand spool, with little loose.Cri
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You're welcome.
Not really sure what happened there then.
With time you'll get a pretty good feel in your hands for what's going on when you advance and rewind your film, also checking the crank on the top left is actually moving analogue to you advancing the lever on the right is good practice to establish.
Of course this won't help you now but maybe good advice for future hickups - with the main thing to take away being that you have to open the camera in a darkroom / darkbag if weird stuff happens or else the whole roll will be fucked.
Actually it might be worth to get a really cheap roll of film just to test this stuff out, to learn how it feels rewinding, advancing etc.
salad
Hello, and welcome,
The end of the film (the loose end, pointing upwards in your picture) is supposed to be still attached to the spool inside that catridge on the left.
Either it has come loose / was not attached properly during production, or you have kinda ripped this off while trying to advance the film with force, when you were already at the end of it (you should have noticed quite some resistance, followed by "no resistance" afterwards).
Pushing the release on the bottom right, then using the fold-out crank on the top left of the camera is the way to go to rewind your film on cameras like that, and you not feeling any tension really clarifies the film had snapped out of the catridge by then already. Gotta say I have never seen it happen like this before - I have seen ripped film somewhere outside the canister but not the whole thing come out clean like that).
Question really is did you forcefully try to advance the film at the end.
Sorry to say but yes, it is.