u/Round-Click3029

I had a problem with the exposure counter on my Contax G1.

It went up to 44 frames without rewinding the film.
I was shooting with Portra 400.

This problem worried me, since it’s sometimes possible to get 37, 38, or even 39 exposures on a single roll of film. But I’ve never gotten 44 before.

I know that automatic cameras like the Contax G1 usually have a pressure sensor to detect when the film is running out, or else they know when to rewind thanks to their internal frame counter.

I don’t understand why my Contax didn’t rewind the film sooner. Wouldn’t the camera have prevented me from taking empty shots if the film hadn’t been properly loaded in the first place?

Also I forgot to mention that I ended up using the small button at the bottom of the camera to rewind it. Weirdly it only rewinded until the 25th frame then stopped. Then, I opened the back of the camera and the film was fully rewinded.

Thank you!!

I had a problem with the exposure counter on my Contax G1.

It went up to 44 frames without rewinding the film.
I was shooting with Portra 400.

This problem worried me, since it’s sometimes possible to get 37, 38, or even 39 exposures on a single roll of film. But I’ve never gotten 44 before.

I know that automatic cameras like the Contax G1 usually have a pressure sensor to detect when the film is running out, or else they know when to rewind thanks to their internal frame counter.

I don’t understand why my Contax didn’t rewind the film sooner. Wouldn’t the camera have prevented me from taking empty shots if the film hadn’t been properly loaded in the first place?

Also I forgot to mention that I ended up using the small button at the bottom of the camera to rewind it. Weirdly it only rewinded until the 25th frame then stopped. Then, I opened the back of the camera and the film was fully rewinded.

Thank you!!

I’m lucky enough to be working for a company that hires digits, so we got a lot of gear I can use.

The scanning setup I was using couldn’t get any better in my opinion I had : a phase one XF, an IQ4 back and a 120mm macro, as well as the full negative supply set up and light source. I was shooting tethered to C1.

My workflow was not the issue since I was clearly doing what I was meant to. I tried multiple exposures, white balances curves, as well as the RGB channel separation thing but never managed to get a clean flat scan. I kept getting color casts/ ugly hues I did not ask for…

I was wondering what you guys think about this tool, I spent quite a lot of time on it and only had bad results. Would it be better to shoot tethered, export tiff files if the negs, import them into Lr and use NLP (negative lab pro).

Thank you!!

Hello!!

I'm currently working on archiving my photos using C1 sessions. I'm using a renaming format that is :  FLB_YYYYMMDD_0001 (YYYYMMDD being the date the photo was taken) and I'm trying to replicate a behavior I had when i was still working in Lightroom : the counter should be tied to the date in the filename (in the EXIF metadata as well of course bc it's the same date)

SO: if I import photos shot on 2026-07-21 in the morning (getting the counter from 0001 to 0050), then import more photos also shot on 2026-07-21 later that day (a second card, a second import, etc.), I want the counter to continue from 0051 for that same date not restart at 0001, (every date has it's unique counter, and every photo of the same date has a different number) and not just keep climbing indefinitely across different dates either. The counter should be "scoped" per capture date, so each new date starts fresh at 0001, but multiple imports on the same date keep incrementing correctly. Also, the archived photos will be in different subfolders under capture, they will not be arranged by date but by themes.

Capture One's counter doesn't seem to work this way, it's a single global running number tied to the import, and I'd have to manually check the last number used for that date and set the counter accordingly before each import (pretty much impossible to do lol).

I was wondering if anyone:

1. Found a way to make the counter behave per-date like this natively (or by using a plug-in)?
2. Built or found an AppleScript that scans the destination folder for the highest existing counter for a given date and sets the next import's counter to continue from there?
3. Solved this with a different naming/workflow strategy?

I'm working on a MacBook Pro M3 max, even a rough script I could adapt or a smart naming token setup would be a huge help.

Thank youuu!