marco ferrari wrote:
> Hi all, > I'm new to the PDML. > I'm experiencing an annoying problem on my MZ-5n. > > Sometime, but mainly with CR2 battery with about 10 rolls life, the > film does not advance correctly resulting in a partial double > exposures of some frames. This problem occurs at mid roll, for 1 or 2 > shots, it causes a change in the gauge between the frames and so I had > many mis-cut slides. > > As anyone experienced a similar problem? How to resolve it? I mean, > "unfortunately" this is not a clear issues, it occours randomly but > everything else seems to be ok. I do not think it is a mechanical > problem neither an electronic one. It seems that sometime the wind > motor has not the power to advance correctly the film. > > Thanks to all, > > Marco > Marco, I had a similar experience while using a battery grip with 4 AAs. It happened only once or twice, and I attributed it to the low batteries. I haven't done anything (rather than replacing the batteries), and it seemingly worked alright ever since that. A year or two years later the winder mechanism broke, but this could have been unrelated (could be from a impact/shake the camera experienced) Igor
