On Apr 14, 2011, at 4:25 PM, John Francis wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 02:54:49PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> That was the favourite failure mode of my Praktica and drove me >> nuts. Eventually I decided to always waste the 1st frame by doing >> one extra advance to see if it was still winding. Better that than >> waste an entire roll. > > I guess I';m a little confused here. > > On all the film cameras I owned you had to advance the film a couple > of frames after closing the back. I used to do this after turning > the "rewind" crank to pre-tension the film (which I generally did > while the camera back was still open). > > That way it was very obvious if the film was advancing properly. > the ME had some little indicator to show the film was moving, IIRC, > but I never relied on that. > > The same trick worked on later cameras with motorised film advance.
John, for that method to work, you need to pay attention to whether or not the the rewind crank is turning, or whatever that body's signal is. For those of us who sometimes didn't pay attention, we had many phantom photos. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
