rbiemer
Unabashed Amateur
A couple of things about the Epic:
The flashing "E" usually means that the film is not loaded correctly--and these are sometimes a bit fiddly. The film needs to be just at the mark and fairly flat. With the "lip" of the film cassette pointing directly across the film gate. I bought one for my mother the first year they were released and 10 or 11 years later it failed by not being able to load and advance the film. I think it was because the advance mechanism was not "grippy" enough any more.
They cost about $214 when they first came out. Not sure where Don Collucci got his $80 figure from but maybe that was a new-old-stock price when he wrote that web page. I bought the last one I briefly ( mom swiped it as soon as she saw I had it:bang🙂 had from a local drug store chain for $15 on close out two years ago.
Rob
The flashing "E" usually means that the film is not loaded correctly--and these are sometimes a bit fiddly. The film needs to be just at the mark and fairly flat. With the "lip" of the film cassette pointing directly across the film gate. I bought one for my mother the first year they were released and 10 or 11 years later it failed by not being able to load and advance the film. I think it was because the advance mechanism was not "grippy" enough any more.
They cost about $214 when they first came out. Not sure where Don Collucci got his $80 figure from but maybe that was a new-old-stock price when he wrote that web page. I bought the last one I briefly ( mom swiped it as soon as she saw I had it:bang🙂 had from a local drug store chain for $15 on close out two years ago.
Rob
