[rollei_list] Re: The "automat" film feeler mechanism
- From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:14:56 -0300
I'd like to clarify I really like very much the 'flex automatic film feeler
mechanism, but when you made an error and it causes to lose some images,
you want to protest despite it was not the mechanism fault...
Carlos
2015-02-27 14:48 GMT-03:00 CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Claus Prochnow explains in the Report IV there were three main reasons to
> eliminate the automatic film feeler mechanism for the 2,8GX: 1) Manufacture
> cost considering the cameras low production volume. 2) Some new films using
> too thin tapes to activate the mechanism, causing calibration issues. 3)
> Photographers forgot to pass the film between the two rollers sometimes.
>
> Number 3 happened to me a few days ago, after a similar situation five or
> six years ago. I was in a hurry loading a new film in the 3.5F and forgot
> to pass the film between the rollers; it was an enormous deception when the
> frame number 1 never engaged and the entire roll was wrapped in the upper
> spool; I needed the camera for that moment. I wished very much to have my
> Rolleicord there, it wouldn't have this problem. Anyway, I saved the
> situation with the Lumix LX7, but it was not the same, they were shots
> thought for the Rollei.
> I recovered the film in the dark bag afterward and I'm using it in the
> 3,5F again, but I couldn't recover the moment I wanted for the Rollei...
>
> Carlos
>
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