I didn't fancy lowering the shutter speed below the focal length of the lens for hand holding, as it was overcast I just jumped to 1000 although I should have opted for 800 thinking about it now.
I have a faulty film back for my Hasselblad that winds on too far at the start of the film and only puts two shots on the end of the roll that I need to get repaired. It could be something like that i.e. a problem with the back rather than the camera.
.....too lazy to dig my Etrs out to see if any shutter speeds around the lens
If the shop just fastened the film into the take-up spool and did not wind on until the start arrow reached the red mark, the first few frames would miss the film and the mechanism would 'think' the film had finished before it had.I thought this as well, or that the shop wound it on waaaay too far when they loaded the film. But then the blank frames would be at the start of the film and not at the end?
If the shop just fastened the film into the take-up spool and did not wind on until the start arrow reached the red mark, the first few frames would miss the film and the mechanism would 'think' the film had finished before it had.
Could there be a problem with film rollers or mechanism? I am in same boat with my Rolleiflex GX which misses frames in start. i havnt heard from technician so far but wont be long.
Yes the darkslide can pose a problem in more than one way tbh as like you say stephen, it only has to be out a fraction to allow the shutter to fire and also when the back is off camera, the darkslide can be removed which depending how one has it stored in bag etc, can be too easy to pull it out slightly and potentially allow light entry.
It is one of the safety features that the RZ67 has, but is missing with the ETRS
I've purchased another 120 back and loaded a roll ready for the weekend, although it looks rather cold so I hope the battery will be Ok.
Another lens has been won on eBay but it's coming from Japan so it'll be a few weeks before I can test that out.
Hopefully the tech will have some good news for you Taimoor.
It could have been more frustrating if it was new gear but it's old and ffordes dealt with it as best they could and I was no worse of really at the end of the day.....Thanks for the link Paul, that must have been rather frustrating going back and forth like that over a number of months.
The test roll, with a different 120 back, was posted yesterday so I'll hopefully have it back during the latter part of the week to check the results (it was also pretty cold yesterday AM so it should be similar conditions to last time).
I just hope the lens arrives in the next week or two to do some more tests, if it does appear to be the lens then I'll have to check if they'll do a partial refund or replacement depending on their stock.
Interested to try that silver oxide battery as well just to rule most things out.
Another lens has been won on eBay but it's coming from Japan so it'll be a few weeks before I can test that out.
Update: Second roll back, same lens but a different back and all the frames are exposed so fingers crossed.
Thanks,
Jason
Update: Second roll back, same lens but a different back and all the frames are exposed so fingers crossed.
Thanks,
Jason