I must be a defective human being. I've read the manual but I keep failing to load film into Rolleiflex 3.5F! Here's what happens:
And here's the strangest thing: this happens to me not only with my 3.5F, but also with 2.8F and FW 4.0! So it's definitely not a hardware issue. At this point I'm out of ideas, short of making a video of myself loading a Rolleiflex and posting it on YouTube.
Harry Fleenor on the phone said that I somehow flip the double-exposure ring when loading. How would that happen? I don't touch that thing. Is there another way to trigger this behavior? Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
- I have read loading instructions numerous times.
- I load the film.
- Close the lid.
- Advance the crank until it stops. The frame counter reads "1" as it should.
- I fire the 1st shot. It works fine.
- The crank doesn't advance forward. It's locked.
- I can rewind it backwards, which cocks the shutter.
- The crank still doesn't advance forward, but at this point I can trigger the shutter causing double exposure, of course.
- This unlocks the crank and the rest of the roll is fine.
- Basically, the camera forces me to expose the 1st frame twice.
And here's the strangest thing: this happens to me not only with my 3.5F, but also with 2.8F and FW 4.0! So it's definitely not a hardware issue. At this point I'm out of ideas, short of making a video of myself loading a Rolleiflex and posting it on YouTube.
Harry Fleenor on the phone said that I somehow flip the double-exposure ring when loading. How would that happen? I don't touch that thing. Is there another way to trigger this behavior? Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.