Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]David, Just a small hope this might cheer you up: have you made sure you keep the film advance lever pushed back against the body ? If you leave it halfway or even slightly out, the winder stops winding so that you can manually advance the film. This just might do it (surprised me on the 1st roll) :-) If that should unfortunately not be the simple explanation, then, yes, you have a defective system :-( Alan David Strang wrote: > > Hopefully, someone can cheer me up! I got the Mototr WInder for my R8 tonite > at 4pm. I stopped into the local camera shop for some batteries and made my > way up to the ice arena. I had to shoot ice hockey and my idea was to use > the R8/Winder/35f2 for fan shots. I had a large hole in the front page to > fill. Well, I put the batteries in the winder and attached it and NOTHING! > When I attach the winder with the camera ON, the motor works. If the camera > switch is turned off and then back on, NOTHING..KAPUTT!. Now if I drop a > roll in, the camera jumps to life and functions, until I shut off the > camera. When I switch the camera on, NOTHING..KAPUTT! > > Is this normal for this winder? Seems like a problem to me! Anyone out there > seen anything like this? > > Anyway, I had my Canons and everything worked out fine, except the home team > was drubbed. > > Dave > dstrang@up.net