[rollei_list] Re: 220, it worked!

  • From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:20:49 -0300

Yes Jerry, I think it is a solution if you use 220 film sometimes, BTW
if you use it regularly perhaps it would be better the 220 adaptation.

Carlos

2010/4/15 Jerry Lehrer <glehrer@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Carlos,
>
> Good boy!  Smart thinking, indeed.  I did the same thing MANY years ago when
> 220 film
> first came out.  I opened the back and stuck a 2 inch long piece of black
> slide binding tape
> to the back of the film just before the feeler rollers.  In a changing bag
> of course.  Worked
> every time.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> CarlosMFreaza wrote:
>>
>> I did it, I rewound again the 220 film from the 'cord IV, I loaded it
>> in the 2.8C again, I shot with the lens cap on the lens up to the
>> frame 12, working with my hands within a dark bag I open the camera
>> back, the frames counter returned to zero, I found with my fingers the
>> roller and put the same tape that comes with films to stick the film
>> start to the paper on the film in the camera, to the part beside the
>> roller but before to pass between the rollers, I closed the camera and
>> turned the crank, I perceived the typical resistence when the rollers
>> "feel" the film start and after a short advance the number 1 appeared
>> in the window, the 2.8C it's ready to shoot the frame 13.
>> I comment these experiences because I think they could be useful for
>> some Rollei users, B&W 220 film is no longer available after TMY 320
>> was discontinued some months ago, but it is available for color
>> negative and slide films.-
>>
>> Carlos
>>
>>
>>
>> 2010/4/14 CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>>>
>>> I was thinking about this issue, perhaps the solution is easy, I only
>>> need to add a tape to the film when I open the camera back, the frame
>>> 12 is in the film gate, if I add a tape after the frame 12 and close
>>> the back, the tape plus film will press the lower roller and the film
>>> counter will be engaged again, perhaps I'll rewind the film in the
>>> 'cord to try this solution with the 2.8C again.
>>>
>>> Carlos
>>>
>>> 2010/4/14 CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> After the success using 220 film with the Rolleicord IV, I commented I
>>>> had uploaded the 2.8C with the Tri-X  ISO 320, 220; I also commented
>>>> the automatic mechanism worked fine to advance the frames counter up
>>>> to the number 1. After to take the frame 12 and before to advance the
>>>> film, I open the camera back in the darkness and the frames counter
>>>> came back to zero, as you could expect. Problem was when I started to
>>>> advance the film again, the film advance mechanism worked as if the
>>>> film was already finished, the film advanced but it never engaged the
>>>> number 1, the automatic film feeler to advance to number 1 did not
>>>> work because there was film running  through it evidently. I rewound
>>>> the film in an empty spool and put it in the 'cord IV, I shot with the
>>>> lens cap on the lenses up to the frame 12 (this first part has the
>>>> images taken with the 2.8C) and repeated the procedure, it worked fine
>>>> again with the 'cord IV because this camera does not have the lower
>>>> film feeler mechanism, the film advanced up to the number 1 and the
>>>> camera is ready to shoot the real frame number 13, I'll have Xenotar
>>>> and Xenar shots in the same roll.-
>>>>
>>>> Carlos
>>>>
>>>>
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