A couple of weeks ago, I went down to the river to take pictures of the bald eagles with my Canon EOS Elan IIE. With the wind blowing, it was very cold and several times, the battery indicator would flash like it was dead. I believe it was just because it was too cold. Every time that the battery indicator would flash, I would turn the mode dial to lock. I would leave it in lock for a few moments then I would return the mode dial to the shooting mode that I was using. I ended doing this several times when I was shooting. What I failed to realize was that every time I turned my camera's mode dial to lock and turned it back, the camera would automatically advance the roll of film to the next frame. This essentially caused me to skip unused frames on the roll of film that I was using. I was wondering if turning the mode dial from lock to a shooting mode is supposed to cause the camera to advance the roll of film to the next exposure or is this not normal? If this happens again, is there a way for me to manually rewind the film to the frame that was skipped? It is very annoying to have this happen and it is a potential waste of film if the camera keeps wanting to skip frames when the mode dial gets turned from lock to a shooting mode.
