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My latest acquisition arrived—a Mamiya C330 TLR camera. Yesterday I put a roll of film through it and developed it this morning. I was gutted to find that there are problems with the film advance. The spacing between the frames varies between 1/2 to a full frame. There were only 7,5 frames on the roll.

This is the fourth consecutive camera that I have bought from #kameratori #kamerastore in Finland that had to be returned for refund or repair. All were certified fully working with no defects.

Rom | Tapas in the sun 2y ago

This is the whole film cut and sleeved. Frame 1 is top left, frame 8 is bottom right - frames 9-12 are missing. You can see the excessive and irregular frame spacing - it starts off at half a frame and ends up being a full frame (approx).

Frame 5 (the dark one) is when the shutter release mechanism jammed. I couldn’t take a photo, and I couldn’t wind the film on. I eventually freed it up by using the multi-exposure setting and cocking the shutter manually, which allowed me to fire the shutter.

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