Michael Darling wrote:
> No, I'm sure this isn't an electrical problem. The shutter is half wound,
> the mirror is up, and the wind lever isn't moving. Something in the gear
> train is screwy, and I'm pretty sure its that first set of gears that couple
> the MD socket to the cameras guts.
Sounds good (bad?) to me -- there's a lever that's supposed to keep the gears
from
turning at the wrong time. Something's loose/tight/sticky/bent/whatever.
> Now that I've thought about it, I remember something similar happening with
> my OM-1 when used with the winder1. Some frames would be streaked -- like
> the film was being wound _before_ the exposure was finished and the shutter
> had closed.
That's something else that can happen, but shouldn't. If a MD/Winder winds
while
the shutter is open, it's almost always the MD Switch in the camera that is
supposed to tell the MD/Winder when to run and when to stop -- usually an easy
fix.
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