sweathog
Well-known
I've never had issues with film jamming in my XA2. That being said, I did once put a 24exp film in it and it let me shoot for 38 frames (I still have no idea what happened). I know it may sound a silly question, but how jammed was it? I just ask because my girlfriend's Trip 35 jams occasionally, but it isn't actually a jam, as it will continue quite happily after a (very) hard turn of the advance crank with no bad results.
fidget
Lemon magnet
Hmm, I did give it some extra force at one point. I could hear and feel the film jumping the sprocket or something like that. It's as if the film had come to the end. I think that when dev'ed I will see if it is damaged or folded concertina style. I will also pop in a scrap film and try that.
EDIT: I had some time to spare so blacked out the darkroom and opened the jammed XA2. The film was at the end, whilst the counter was at 29. The film was on the spool properly so I rewound it. I was shocked and very embarrassed to find it is a 24 exp film :bang::bang: It was one of a few given to me by a club member going digi. (I don't buy 36 exp normally).
I dashed to my collection of film waiting for dev etc and found that the other film (jammed at 25) is also a 24 :bang:
so it seems that the only real problem I had was with the 36exp film which jammed at 15. That is now back in the camera and I have wound past 18 without a problem, so time will tell. ( this film is a bulk load film, from APX400s which has a thin base which causes problems in some of my FSU RFs).
This is very embarrassing......what a goof :bang:
EDIT: I had some time to spare so blacked out the darkroom and opened the jammed XA2. The film was at the end, whilst the counter was at 29. The film was on the spool properly so I rewound it. I was shocked and very embarrassed to find it is a 24 exp film :bang::bang: It was one of a few given to me by a club member going digi. (I don't buy 36 exp normally).
I dashed to my collection of film waiting for dev etc and found that the other film (jammed at 25) is also a 24 :bang:
so it seems that the only real problem I had was with the 36exp film which jammed at 15. That is now back in the camera and I have wound past 18 without a problem, so time will tell. ( this film is a bulk load film, from APX400s which has a thin base which causes problems in some of my FSU RFs).
This is very embarrassing......what a goof :bang:
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