Discovered a dark bag trick that saved a whole roll of ruined film

I accidentally opened my camera back mid-roll at a wedding last weekend and panicked hard. Instead of trashing it, I loaded the film into a changing bag and developed it by feel alone in my bathroom at 2am. The top half of every frame has this wild purple light leak but the bottom half came out CRISP. Has anyone else tried salvaging a roll after a back pop or am I just lucky?

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sagen3617d ago

My buddy did this exact thing with a roll from his sister's graduation. He was so mad he threw the camera in his glovebox and forgot about it for like three months. When he finally found it he just said screw it and developed the roll anyway. The whole thing looked like someone had dipped the frames in a really expired cherry popsicle, all pink and hazy on the edges. But you could still see her face clearly in the center and he actually ended up liking the look more than the other rolls he shot that day. Sometimes accidents just work out weird like that.

the_nathan17d ago

Wait, three months in a hot glovebox and it still had visible images?