On early January 2026, I lost a roll of [[35mm Film|35mm film]] because it got stuck rewinding on my [[Olympus Superzoom 80G]]. There are two main causes for this: - The roll was very tightly loaded and it was able to be pushed to 38 expositions from the original 36 designed for. - The [[Olympus Superzoom 80G|Olympus S80G]] is a self-rewinding camera: it automatically detects when the roll is over and rewinds it for unloading. Using a [[4Hundred Hundred Film]] roll, when the camera advanced up to (or just before) the 38th exposition, it unloaded a tab that was glued to the inside of the film. Taking that tab out, the corners of the original roll were no longer inside the foam and they slightly bent, making it impossible to rewind the film using the camera's mechanism. The camera would not open the lenses when turned on (as it usually does) and the counter would mark 38 photos, but manually triggering the rewind mechanism would not work. I assumed that it was some error in the camera state and opened the camera (big mistake), exposing the film. Some things I could have done to prevent this: 1. Opening the camera was my main error, I could've kept it as-is and take it to a lab for them to deal with. Ideally, I would've had access to a [changing bag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changing_bag). 2. From now on, using this camera but above all else, using re-spooled film, I think I should be conservative: try to not go over 36 expositions unless I am in dire need.