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Subject: [OM] Re: Does the XA easily tear film?
From: Charles Sdunek <csdunek@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:03:37 -0500
Chuck,

It sounds like the film may have been jammed in the spool, and you broke 
it free so it advanced freely after you pulled it out and trimmed the 
new leader.  
I've use both an XA and XA2 quite a bit and have never had a problem.

Just a thought,

Chuck



Chuck Norcutt wrote:

>When I loaded the test roll it went first into the XA since I knew I 
>couldn't control the Epic's behaviour of completely rolling the film 
>leader into the casette.  On the first try winding the film on the XA I 
>encountered a fair amount of resistance after a couple rolls of the 
>thumbwheel.  I thought the resistance was simply cocking the shutter but 
>when the thumbwheel suddenly released and started spinning easily I 
>realized that I had broken the film sprockets... something I have never 
>done in 40 years on any camera.
>
>I opened the camera and noticed for the first time ever that the XA only 
>pulls the film on one side.  I then used a pair of scissors to trim up a 
>new leader.  After reloading the camera I wound my test images very 
>gingerly and had no further problem.
>
>Both the XA and the Epic ended up producing nicely exposed images so I 
>took both cameras with me on the trip.  However, I couldn't bring myself 
>to use the XA for fear of tearing the film sprockets again.
>
>Anybody had this experience?  Is this common or was I being heavy handed 
>on the thumbwheel?
>
>Thanks for any advice,
>Chuck Norcutt
>



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