Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gib: Your problem if the drive is stopping at less than frame 36 is something is dirty. Try cleaning the contacts with a pencil eraser. I have had this problem and that cured it. I also noticed that tightening the the drive onto the camera too tight will also cause this. It must distort something that affects the contacts. If these two tips do not cure it, send the drive and camera off to be cleaned. Regards, Robert Stevens At 07:43 PM 12/29/98 -0800, you wrote: >Occasionally I use my R4s bodies with a winder but lately the winder has >stopped functioning at annoyingly inconvenient moments, usually toward the >ends of rolls. I can still use my thumb to advance the film and cock the >shutter, so I know the camera body is functioning. I've tried wiggling the >winder a bit to see if the contacts are mis-aligned, but that doesn't seem >to help. Batteries seem to be OK. Any thoughts? > >Is the motor drive for the R3-7 more reliable as well as faster than the >winder? The R3-7 winder has never appealed to me as a particularly well >designed or solid piece of equipment but it's a useful "fast thumb" and I >wish it worked. > >--Gib > > > > > >