Re: Realist

[P3D Erlys Jedlicka <erlys@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter, you suggested, re loading the Stereo Realist:

>Trim the sprocket holes from the top edge of the film, about 1 or 2 
>inches worth, so you can get the leader into the take up slot without 
>hassling with the sprocket wheel.  Then as you wind it, the film will 
>engage the sprockets on the wheel.  Works for me...but there are people 
>on the list who have more experience with the Realist this week than I 
>do in my life.

Thanks for your suggestion! I have been doing this, and I make sure the 
leader misses the white dot at the center of the wheel before I close the 
camera. My biggest problem is that after I close the camera and begin 
winding, it often won't catch, and when I have wound long enough to 
realize that if I keep winding I will wind forever, I have to back up the 
film and start over. Sometimes it takes several false starts before I get 
it to catch. It's that very first wind right after I close the camera 
that won't catch.....

Anybody got any ideas?

Erlys


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