Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>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