Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wouldn't you need film in the camera to turn the sprocket so as to reset the button? Steve - ---------- >From: Ben <longjohn@netvigator.com> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] R8 rewind clearance button problem >Date: Thu, Sep 3, 1998, 2:11 AM > >Thanks for your info. I may not have conveyed my problem clearly. Sorry. > >The problem with my rewind clearance button is that when I press it down to feel >the "click" and then try to reset it to ordinary position (by rewinding or by >shifting the mutiple exposure tab), the button only comes up 1/4 way thru. I >have to turn the camera upside down and to tab it many times to have it fully pop >up. This feeling is so insecure that I don't feel confortable in using it. >Nightmare will be making mutiple exposure when I do not intend to. > >BTW, I gather from your posts that you also use a R8. Is it reliable and tough >as prior models? > >Thanks. > >Ben > > > >Eric Welch wrote: > >> At 08:37 PM 9/2/98 +0800, you wrote: >> >> >Very disappointingly, I found that the rewind clearance button does not come >> >back >> >to original position smoothly after pressed and rewinding. I have to >> press the >> >shutter release for several frames before it can hop back to the ordinary >> >position >> >(possible due to the vibration). This is very disturbing. >> >> Key point. Have you tried it with film yet? When you load the camera with >> the winder attached, and the camera already on, the camera automatically >> runs the film to frame one when you close the back. Could this be tied to >> that feature? >> -- >> >> Eric Welch >> St. Joseph, MO >> http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch >> >> Prepositions are not words to end sentences with. > >