Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]G'day Greg, > Second, I have twice experienced multiple firing of my R8 [of the same > nature as the sequence when loading with the winder on] well into > rolls of > film. This occured between the 20th and 30th frames on both rolls. > It > cycled just as it would when initially loaded, with three shutter > releases > from a single pressing of the shutter release. Sounds like we may be sharing a similar problem. My winder fired off shots without notice, on 3 occasions, usually soon after taking a shot, but not immediately following it. I had usually hung the camera and the 70-180 down, and have 9 or 10 slides of very blurry pavement ;-) Since coming home, I've put the winder back on the camera and wandered around the house waiting for the fault to resurface. So far no extra exposures to my knowledge, but then there is no film in the camera, so perhaps your idea that it is related to the loading routine is correct. Everything else seems fine, but the litany of disasters related to the Leica SLR are certainly mounting up. A disaster like this could ruin a company which is founded on the notion of quality, and I'll bet there are some worried company executives. Please report any progress or information you get on the winders problems, and how to fix them, I feel a very P76 shafting about this one. cheers, Alastair Firkin, http://users.netconnect.com.au/~firkin/AGFhmpg.html