Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/20

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Subject: [Leica] Velvia & Motor Drive R8 jammed!!
From: bernard.degaute at skynet.be (Bernard Degaute)
Date: Thu Oct 20 06:51:25 2005

>Fred, I shot a lot of Velvia through my R8 and had no difficulty of
>the kind you're experiencing so I think you'd better follow this one
>up with Leica.
>
>AB
>
>On 10/19/05, Fred Hess / Phenix Visuals NL <fredhess@phenix-visuals.nl>
wrote:
>> 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!


I had exactly the same problem with a M6TTL and Classic Pan 400


Bernard
bernard.degaute@skynet.be



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