Re: Re: [Leica] R8 with Drive is ripping the sprocket holes! ???

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Funny enough

Just this weekend, I overheard a dealer saying that this problem is endemic to the R8 plus 
the motordrive.  I was really perturbed hearing this after buying my R8 only about 6months 
ago.   I could have bought the R9 which he said is rid of all these problems but i chose to 
go with supposedly old reliable R8 which I forsee to be nearing its age of problem free 
functioning.

I would like to hear more about registering for any pro servicing of my equipment in Solm?
I tap on wood, hope that my R8 does not start to sh.. itself.

Has anybody else felt kinda iffy about their R8?

Ruddy

> Hi Ted.  It's only been happening since I started using Reala for the 
> soccer work I've been doing for the last several weeks.  I've thought 
> it might be the Reala, which is a stiff sort of film (must be that 
> fourth layer ;-) ), but geez, I'd be surprised if that was the extent 
> of it.  Come to think of it, I did run tests with some Agfa 100 and 
> with a roll of Kodak Max.  While I didn't get broken holes in the 
> middle of the film with these, they did break once the last frame had 
> been reached.
> 
> There must be a mechanism in the drive to stop it from ripping the 
> holes at the end of the film.  If there wasn't, it'd rip them every 
> time, with multiple exposures on the last frame being the norm.  I 
> think my drive is just out of kilter, for some reason.  It's been 
> useful otherwise - I'm still using it even though it's trouble prone, 
> but not confidently.
> 
> Ted, or others, have you used the Pro Service offered by Leica Germany? 
>    Our local service centre can't repair R8/9 bodies - don't have the 
> tools and computers for it, yet.
> 
> Regards,  Rick.
> 
> On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 01:20  PM, Ted Grant wrote:
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> > Rick Dykstra asked:
> >>> R8 with Drive is ripping the sprocket holes! ???<<<<
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> >> my black R8 fitted with a Motor Drive has
> >> been shearing the sprocket holes of Fuji Reala.  This has led to a few
> >> minor tragedies; double exposures, multiple exposures, in the middle 
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> >> rolls and at the end.  One thing I have learned though; the sound of
> >> the drive sprockets spinning through torn sprocket holes <<<<,
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> > Hi Rick,
> > That's something new all together as I've used my R8's in the Canadian
> > Arctic and never had a problem at any temperature well below freezing. 
> > And
> > in Malaysia at 40 degrees and never had any sprocket problem at all.
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> > Does this happen if you use B&W film? And or film of other 
> > manufacture? Or
> > is this something specifically to Fuji Reala only?
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