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.
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To say I am disappointed with the Mamiya C330 from #kamerastore, also known as #kameratori is an understatement. I have been buying my film cameras from them for several years. They used to be really good. Great accurate descriptions, and the cameras I bought from there were great. I used to recommend them! Now their descriptions are more vague, and I have had problems with the last four cameras purchased from them.
Has anyone else had a similar experience?
nostr:npub1hu7tq2hgnvmwjs55yzqsj57qzleacnuekhcwdjx8zj6g3mdc83fqht4g0d Despite the problems with film advance, this camera looks great! I love it. I wish I still had the time to practice film photography and especially a lab to make prints on baryta paper.
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.
nostr:npub1hu7tq2hgnvmwjs55yzqsj57qzleacnuekhcwdjx8zj6g3mdc83fqht4g0d, that sucks. I have a C330 with three lenses. However, the only lens I get consistently pleasing results with is an 80mm blue dot. The other two are not blue dot.
