taking off the lenses question...

[Mr_Brightside_@]

hi i am taking a photog course with film slr cameras and today i wasn't thinking clearly and i took off the lenses of the camera while it was loaded
i put it back on after about 2s, but do you if i overexposed the film? thankx

 

[Benjamindaines]

Nope you're good, as long as the shutter wasn't opened or the back wasn't opened.

--Cheers

 

[Mr_Brightside_@]

omgosh thank you i was freaking out i just had some awesome pics (i hope ) on it and yeah i was freaking out thankx

 

[Tel]

My dad once told me that I ruined my film from changing lenses when he was teaching me how to us an SLR, he started laughing when I fell for it, he had a good point though, what difference would taking the lens off do anyway? Light can still travel trough the lens even if it is mounted on a camera.

 

[Mr_Brightside_@]

oh yeah... oops. thankx everyone!

 

[ibook30]

My dad once told me that I ruined my film from changing lenses when he was teaching me how to us an SLR, he started laughing when I fell for it, he had a good point though, what difference would taking the lens off do anyway? Light can still travel trough the lens even if it is mounted on a camera.

At my first photo class the instructor did his intro - then zeroed in on my camera, he grabbed it and extoled it's virtues - exclaiming "It's a PHD camera!". Then he explained "PHD" means "Push Here Dummy", and that it was the worst camera to have- no skill to use, etc...(it was a point and shoot piece). I was fifteen and he was a professional- he became a friend later after we swapped stories about rock shows. Stupid PHD camera.