Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Hasselblad Vpan/Fuji TX=1
From: George Huczek <ghuczek@sk.sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 08:05:29 -0600

At 03:38 AM 17/08/98 +0100, you wrote:
>George Huczek wrote:
><< There is one "feature" that the camera has that really puzzles me. 
>Is it not likely that the film winds out of the cartridge when film is is
>loaded and then "rewinds" into the cartridge after each shot? This is what
>happens, for example, with the Ricoh GR1, and seems a safer operating mode
>than the conventional one.
>
Yes.  I checked the specs on the Hasselblad website, and this is exactly
what happens.  The film frame numbers would be from 36 to 1, if the 35 mm
frame size were used.  Confusing.

- -GH