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seanmckinney
| | Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 08:05 am: | 
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Hello, whilst buy some lenses for my old Minolta X700 I have received two cameras with known about jammed film winders, one is an X700 and the other is an XG9. Also I noticed that on both cameras the coupler of the base of the camera that would transmit the drive from the power winder to the camera is damaged. Initially I would have said that people have tried to force the winders with screwdivers and that the screwdrivers have slipped. However I have also picked up a working minolta autowinder G and when that is applied to a working camera it does seem quite 'aggresive' and it has me wondering if these power winders are a good or bad thing.
Now bare in mind that I have never owned or felt-in-action a power winder so what I think may feel "aggresive" is, in fact, perfectly normal.
I have noticed that jammed winders seem to be a not rare problem on Minoltas or at least it would seem so from some of the comments I have seen so I may be putting 2 and 2 together to get 5.
So are power winders good or bad and what happens if they go bad on a camera?
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Roger Sink
| | Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 10:52 am: |
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Power winders or motor drives, whether integrated into the body or attached separately are not a bad thing on SLR cameras - as long as 1) the coupling mechanism mates properly and has not been damaged, and 2) the camera's film advance and wind mechanism are designed to handle the stress.
The Minolta X-700 is not particularly known for the strength of its film advance mechanism, and has some plastic components. Others may disagree, but I have seen plenty of broken ones and would not use a power winder with this particular camera. |
seanmckinney
| | Posted on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 01:15 am: |
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Thanks, clear advice, oh well I wonder how the winder works as a paper weight. :-)) |
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