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[fefe]

Hi,
I got a nice Super Ikonta III from Jurgen last week and have started to put it to good use. I had a few frames overlapping but it seemed to improve as I was getting more rolls through. Could it be linked to me winding to aggressively ?

Anyways I got a few pictures I really like already.

I found the images to have great depth, and be very sharp as long as I don't shoot wide open. It takes less than half the volume of my M8+35 cron, and a few days ago they let me in a concert with it: "you can't change lens, has no flash, uses film, you can't takee good picture with that". There was a pile of DSLR and compact cameras at the entrance, and I ended up standing alongside the pros that were covering the event 🙂.

 

[P C Headland]

What lens does your have?

To stop the frames overlapping, wind on a bit further than indicated when loading the camera and before closing the back. Another, better option, is to wind a turn or two of old backing paper on the take up spool, the load the film as usual. This makes the spool a bit thicker - it seems the modern films are thinner overall, which causes some problems, particularly at the start of the roll.

Try to treat the camera with some care - remember, it's getting on a bit - and it should serve you for many a year.

Aren't MF folders great?!

 

[FallisPhoto]

Hi,
I got a nice Super Ikonta III from Jurgen last week and have started to put it to good use. I had a few frames overlapping but it seemed to improve as I was getting more rolls through. Could it be linked to me winding to aggressively ?

Welcome to the club! It is pretty old technology, had been improved about as much as it could be quite a while back and the old stuff is just as good as the new stuff. The frame overlap problem has nothing to do with how you are winding the film, but rather is because of the fact that modern film uses a thinner substrate. If you can't live with it, save your backing paper, go into the darkroom and put two layers of backing paper on the next roll of film; that should pad it out enough that the problem will likely disappear.

 

[fefe]

What lens does your have?

A coated Tessar.

To stop the frames overlapping, wind on a bit further than indicated when loading the camera and before closing the back. Another, better option, is to wind a turn or two of old backing paper on the take up spool, the load the film as usual. This makes the spool a bit thicker - it seems the modern films are thinner overall, which causes some problems, particularly at the start of the roll.

Try to treat the camera with some care - remember, it's getting on a bit - and it should serve you for many a year.

Aren't MF folders great?!

Thanks for the advice, and yes it was happening mostly on the first frames. I'll try it on next roll.

I find it incredible that mechanics that old still work so well. I am not mistreating it, no worry 🙂, I'll just feed it a lot !

And yes MF folders are great !!!

 

[fefe]

Welcome to the club! It is pretty old technology, had been improved about as much as it could be quite a while back and the old stuff is just as good as the new stuff. The frame overlap problem has nothing to do with how you are winding the film, but rather is because of the fact that modern film uses a thinner substrate. If you can't live with it, save your backing paper, go into the darkroom and put two layers of backing paper on the next roll of film; that should pad it out enough that the problem will likely disappear.

Thanks ! It kind of disappeared after the 3rd frame, so I am hoping to be able to stop it without having to do that. But in the worst case that's what I'll end up doing.

 

[P. Lynn Miller]

Hi,
I got a nice Super Ikonta III from Jurgen last week and have started to put it to good use.

Good to see another person using a folder, it took me a long time to learn the truth, but now... folders rock! Especially 6x9!

...save your backing paper, go into the darkroom and put two layers of backing paper on the next roll of film...

Would this also help keep the film flatter? It seems that is the Achilles Heel of folders...

 

[FallisPhoto]

Good to see another person using a folder, it took me a long time to learn the truth, but now... folders rock! Especially 6x9!



Would this also help keep the film flatter? It seems that is the Achilles Heel of folders...

I hadn't thought of that, but it should. You can spring the pressure plate, but sometimes you get light leak issues then.