From: Stan Halpin
On Apr 14, 2011, at 4:25 PM, John Francis wrote:
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 02:54:49PM -0400, Bruce Walker wrote:
That was the favourite failure mode of my Praktica and drove
me nuts. Eventually I decided to always waste the 1st frame
by doing one extra advance to see if it was still winding.
Better that than waste an entire roll.
I guess I';m a little confused here.
On all the film cameras I owned you had to advance the film a
couple of frames after closing the back. I used to do this after
turning the "rewind" crank to pre-tension the film (which I
generally did while the camera back was still open).
That way it was very obvious if the film was advancing properly.
the ME had some little indicator to show the film was moving,
IIRC, but I never relied on that.
The same trick worked on later cameras with motorised film
advance.
John, for that method to work, you need to pay attention to whether
or not the the rewind crank is turning, or whatever that body's
signal is. For those of us who sometimes didn't pay attention, we had
many phantom photos.
And sometimes, even after learning that trick, you get in a hurry and
forget.
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