Problems with my Yashica GX

[GustavH]

Hi
I love shooting with my Yashica GX, and is therefore very annoyed when it does double exposures like this.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gustavh/6266669444/in/photostream
In this particular expamle it actually ended up nicely, but i would like the camera not to suprise me like this.

It has done it one time before, can anyone explain why it happens, i suspect that the that the film advancer doesn't catch on to the film.

Also, and this is way weirder, some pictures just turns plain blank, pictures i know was properly exposed. Does these GX's sometimes fail to open the shutter?

Hope someone can answer my questions.

- Gustav

 

[farlymac]

Gustav, how often does the non-exposure happen? That could just be an intermittant sticky shutter. Only thing is, I don't see any exposure problems with your shots, as one would expect (unless you are only displaying a select few, instead of the whole roll).

And where in the roll does the transport slippage occur? Beginning, middle, towards the end?

PF

 

[ColSebastianMoran]

Hmm... Shutter opens and produces the correct exposure. Recock shutter, but the film does not move, so you get a double exposure. It's intermittent, only once in a while.

Sounds like the shutter is A-OK, and you have a mechanical problem in the film transport.

Bummer.

Gustav, Mark Hama in Atlanta fixed a GX for me (different problem).