Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/19

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Subject: [Leica] Velvia & Motor Drive R8 jammed!!
From: fredhess at phenix-visuals.nl (Fred Hess / Phenix Visuals NL)
Date: Wed Oct 19 05:11:14 2005
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Hello folks,

I recently switched form Kodachrome to Velvia for my wildlife-photography.
I faced a strange problem: when I use Velvia 50 film in combination with my
Motor Drive and Leica R8 my motor gets jammed after about 20 pictures. I
even can not use the advance lever to transport the film. I can hear the
sprockets ruin the perforations (in moterized mode as well as manual)
It looks like the film got stuck in the cassette!

This has happened with several Velvia-films, not with Kodak or Agfa films.

Is Velvia-film to thick for the R8 or should there be  a technical problem
with my Motor-Drive?

Has anyone encountered the same problem?

Hopefully my ordered DMR arrives soon,so I don't need Velvia anymore!

Looking forward to your replies.

Kind regards

Fred Hess / Phenix-Visuals.nl
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