Re: [Leica] R8 with Drive is ripping the sprocket holes! ???

[Ken Lai <ken@compose.com.hk>]

Unfortunately the guarantee for the motor drive is only for 2 years (in 
Hong Kong). The R8 in my opinion is rock solid and it has not failed 
once over the past 4 years but the motor drive really drives me nuts. 
Perhaps it is designed to be used as a grip only.


On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 02:33 PM, Gerry Walden wrote:

> I have used an R8 professionally for some time with no major problems
> whatsoever. And remember, the R8 has a 5 year guarantee, which is 
> better
> than any other pro camera.
>
> Gerry
>
> wrote:
>
>> Funny enough
>>
>> Just this weekend, I overheard a dealer saying that this problem is
>> endemic to the R8 plus
>> the motordrive.  I was really perturbed hearing this after buying my
>> R8 only about 6months
>> ago.   I could have bought the R9 which he said is rid of all these
>> problems but i chose to
>> go with supposedly old reliable R8 which I forsee to be nearing its
>> age of problem free
>> functioning.
>>
>> I would like to hear more about registering for any pro servicing of
>> my equipment in Solm?
>> I tap on wood, hope that my R8 does not start to sh.. itself.
>>
>> Has anybody else felt kinda iffy about their R8?
>>
>> Ruddy
>>
>>> Hi Ted.  It's only been happening since I started using Reala for the
>>> soccer work I've been doing for the last several weeks.  I've thought
>>> it might be the Reala, which is a stiff sort of film (must be that
>>> fourth layer ;-) ), but geez, I'd be surprised if that was the extent
>>> of it.  Come to think of it, I did run tests with some Agfa 100 and
>>> with a roll of Kodak Max.  While I didn't get broken holes in the
>>> middle of the film with these, they did break once the last frame had
>>> been reached.
>>>
>>> There must be a mechanism in the drive to stop it from ripping the
>>> holes at the end of the film.  If there wasn't, it'd rip them every
>>> time, with multiple exposures on the last frame being the norm.  I
>>> think my drive is just out of kilter, for some reason.  It's been
>>> useful otherwise - I'm still using it even though it's trouble prone,
>>> but not confidently.
>>>
>>> Ted, or others, have you used the Pro Service offered by Leica 
>>> Germany?
>>>    Our local service centre can't repair R8/9 bodies - don't have the
>>> tools and computers for it, yet.
>>>
>>> Regards,  Rick.
>>>
>>> On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 01:20  PM, Ted Grant wrote:
>>>
>>>> Rick Dykstra asked:
>>>>>> R8 with Drive is ripping the sprocket holes! ???<<<<
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> my black R8 fitted with a Motor Drive has
>>>>> been shearing the sprocket holes of Fuji Reala.  This has led to
>> a few
>>>>> minor tragedies; double exposures, multiple exposures, in the 
>>>>> middle
>>>>> of
>>>>> rolls and at the end.  One thing I have learned though; the sound 
>>>>> of
>>>>> the drive sprockets spinning through torn sprocket holes <<<<,
>>>>
>>>> Hi Rick,
>>>> That's something new all together as I've used my R8's in the
>> Canadian
>>>> Arctic and never had a problem at any temperature well below
>> freezing.
>>>> And
>>>> in Malaysia at 40 degrees and never had any sprocket problem at all.
>>>>
>>>> Does this happen if you use B&W film? And or film of other
>>>> manufacture? Or
>>>> is this something specifically to Fuji Reala only?
>>>>
>>>> ted
>>>>
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Ken Lai

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