SFX problems

thoramay
Posted 14/09/2012 - 22:36 Link
Hi. I have just run through a 36 roll film in, what appears to be, a mint SFX.
The results come back as a failure. The film progressed through and then rewound., yet the film is completely blank.

The mirror is functioning correctly but the sync curtain does not move. Two little fingers of steel move as is to lift the curtain on firing, but nothing happens.

What is strange, at least to me, if you then put the camera in the bulb mode and fire, holding the button, the curtain raises and holds for as long as you maintain pressure on the firing button.
I have changed settings through manual, servo and single but no change.
Is this the camera or is this me???
womble
Posted 14/09/2012 - 22:47 Link
Sounds like the camera to me. Sorry.

K.
Kris Lockyear
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
gartmore
Posted 17/09/2012 - 19:18 Link
Sounds like the camera to me too, sadly a replacement will cost far less than a repair.
Ken
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -

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