Almost ruined a whole roll because I loaded film in direct sunlight

Last month I was at the boardwalk in Santa Cruz, trying to load a fresh roll of Tri-X into my old Canon AE-1. I thought I could just do it quickly under the sun since I was in a hurry to catch the sunset shots. Halfway through the roll I noticed the first 5 frames were totally washed out with a weird haze across them. I had to toss that part of the roll and learned my lesson: always find shade or use your jacket to block the light when loading film. Anyone else get burned by this before?

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the_thomas26d ago

That "foggy morning" look on your Portra shots, was it just the first few frames or the whole roll?

nathan_barnes26d ago

Did that with a roll of Portra at the beach and my shadow shots came out looking like a foggy morning.