Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]David: Another suggestion that I forgot in my previous post. Recently I went through about 30 minutes of anger at my R8 because I couldn't get the film to advance. I finally gave up and drove to my dealer for help. I was having flashbacks of the problems that I had with my first R8 and couldn't see the problem for the anger. The dealer simply moved the cover over the rewind button and it worked perfectly. The camera had been set in double-exposure mode and would not advance the film. I was embarassed but happy. Needless to say, I took a lot of ribbing on it, which was ok. I am sure that I am not the first one to have this same problem. In my opinion, this is a design flaw. I hope you get enough input from subscribers to solve your problem. Bob Bedwell << 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 >>