F3 Troubles

About a year ago, I bought two Nikon F3 bodies to use them with my Voigtlander lenses.

As a Nikon F6 shooter, the two F3s did not see any use until recently. I decided to bring them to a nude art shoot with on-location flash.

In order to mount the wireless flash trigger directly on the camera, the Nikon F3 needs an AS-4 flash adapter. While the accessory itself works flawlessly, it conceals the rewind knob of the F3.

Nikon F3 with the AS-4 over the rewind knob

So this is what happened: I was quite confident that the film was loaded properly but thanks to the AS-4 I failed to realize that the film was not advancing. Having arrived at frame 40 I felt like Kodak was extremely generous with the film material in the canister, only to find out that I did not load the film properly.

Yep, lesson learned. Always check twice before messing up.