[rollei_list] Re: Rollei Rolleiflex 6003 blank exposures frames.
- From: John Wild <JWild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 13:09:06 +0000
Hi Rif,
It is difficult to diagnose without seeing the camera but my logic would say:
If the wind motor was not working or the battery did not have enough charge to
turn the motor, the film would be in the middle of the roll but I guess that
the film ran through each frame and off at the end for you to have a complete
roll to remove, so the battery should be OK. If the battery was not charged
enough, the wind motor would slow down as it advanced the film…
It depends on which 6003 you have, if the later SRC1000, I am guessing that if
there was insufficient battery charge then the 'Charge' LED would light up in
the viewfinder and nothing would happen (this is what happens with the 6008
cameras of the same vintage). If the earlier version, I do not know what is
supposed to happen in case of a low battery ...
It is possible for the 'next frame position' to have been missed and to wind
the film right through but this does not agree with your experience.
I have had a situation with a low battery on a 6006, where the mirror stays up
because there is not enough charge to complete the film wind and the camera
locks up completely and you cannot see anything in the viewfinder, but this is
not your experience either.
Possibly the lens shutter motor has a problem but more likely is the mirror not
flipping up as the exposure is made. If you were looking through the viewfinder
as you pressed the shutter, the viewfinder would go black during the exposure,
if it did not, that is the problem.
To test the camera, remove the back and release the shutter at 1 sec setting,
you should see the mirror flip up and the shutter open and close and the mirror
flip back down.
The sequence is basically:
Press shutter release; lens shutter closes, mirror flips up, aperture adjusts,
shutter opens and closes, mirror flips down, shutter and aperture open and film
winds.
If the first exposure is correct and the second only half the frame is exposed
then possibly the mirror only opened half way and fell down again and stayed
down; the second frame would then be a half frame vignette. The exposed part of
the negative would have a focused underexposed image and would also record a
blur from the moving mirror…
If it is a jammed mirror then it is a task for a repairman - it could be a
disconnected/broken linkage.
From your email address, you are UK based; I know that Brian Mickleboro does
not like repairing 6000 cameras, but there possibly others who may be able to
help otherwise it's a 'send to Germany' repair.
Let me know what the result of your tests show.
John
(editor Club Rollei User - www.rollei.org.uk<http://www.rollei.org.uk>)
On 2 Feb 2014, at 02:17, Arif Raja
<rifftastic@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:rifftastic@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi everyone,
My first posting here, so please forgive me if I've wandered away from the list
etiquette :-)
I have a Rollei 6003, which I loaded with film around 9-months ago and headed
off to the beach to take some shots. After the first shot, the wind picked up,
and I packed away for fear of sand blowing into the camera. There it sat until
last weekend, when I finished the roll, and met with a friend, who developed in
a few minutes.
What I got back, was Frame 1: Perfectly exposed:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/81009684@N07/12261295136/
Frame 2: 1/2 an exposed frame, with nothing recogniseable. Looks like a "light
leak".
Frames 3-12 blank. Not exposed. Nothing.
Where should I look for the problem? I charged the battery for only one hour
before the 2nd session, so I'm wondering if there was not enough power to pull
the film through. I'm using the "simple back" (non-darkslided), and the film
insert has solid white triangles. I used the Planar (PQ), Sonnar & Distagon
lenses, so I'm assuming it's not a lens issue.
Any thoughts on where to look first?
Thanks!
Rif
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