[rollei_list] Re: A tape too thin

I'd like to add a detail, I replaced some minutes ago the empty Agfa spool in 
the 3.5F upper spool chamber putting an empty Fuji spool there, the Fuji spool 
has a "hook" in the middle of the slot for the film coinciding with a hole in 
the Fuji film paper back initial tab, the hook catches the paper tab via the 
hole and there is no way the paper could slip when you wind it from its very 
initial part, in the other hand the paper tended to slip winding it in the 
spool without the hook, perhaps that Agfa spool had some problem 'cause the 
paper does not slip in general with or without hook.
Facts are that with the Fuji spool the film with the problem yesterday enganges 
the film counter mechanism at any speed I wind it with the crank and now I put 
a new Fuji Superia film in the 3.5F and the film counter mechanism enganged 
normally and advanced up to the number 1 with the normal film travel.
Excuse me if I bother with these comments but perhaps they could be useful for 
some user.-

Carlos


--- El sáb 27-sep-08, Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> De: Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Asunto: [rollei_list] A tape too thin
> Para: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fecha: sábado, 27 de septiembre de 2008, 3:32 pm
> Last night I was photographing my city spring students
> festival with the Rolleiflex 3.5F, the Vivitar flash and the
> Rollei grip, after to use the first Agfa RSXII 100 slide
> roll film (from the freezer), I loaded to the camera a new
> Fuji Superia color negative film, I closed the camera back
> and advanced the film to the number 1 moving the crank very
> quick; I perceived the film travel seemed long too much but
> I was in a hurry and had no time to think about it. 
> 
> I took the first photograph, no problem, however the crank
> became stiff to advance the film up to the frame 2, anyway
> the number two appeared in the window but the shutter did
> not shoot, it was not cocked. I open the camera back and
> according the film paper back numbers for 120 it advanced up
> to the frame 4; I rewound the film having the idea to
> advance it with the crank shooting the shutter up to the
> frame 6 to use the last 6 frames, this time I advanced the
> complete roll from spool to spool and the film counter
> mechanism never engaged. 
> 
> I considered the film was lost, at home I rewound it again
> and advanced it up to the frame number 1 very slowly, this
> time the camera film counter mechanism engaged firmly and
> film advance and shutter release were normal up to the frame
> 12, I repeated the sequence again, it was OK. The third time
> I advanced the film very quick (like the original first and
> second time) and the film counter did not engage, I advanced
> the film from spool to spool without stop. I discovered the
> cause for the problem soon, the tape to join the film with
> the paper back was thin too much, a very perceptible
> thickness difference regarding other films and even
> regarding other Fuji Superia batches, a film I use
> regularly. 
> 
> This is the first time I had this problem in almost 40
> years using Rolleiflexes with the film feeler automat
> mechanism, I had already used the 3.5F with any kind of 120
> film and never had the problem and then it's not an
> adjustment issue. I could see now one of the reasons
> (explained in the Report IV) to eliminate the film feeler
> automat mechanism for the GX could be right, I lost 12
> valuable images I could take last night because the paper
> back and tape for the film were thin too much.
> 
> Carlos 
> 
> 
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