How to use 127 film in camera with two red windows?

[shead]

I have a vintage Faultless Miniature, one of those cheap bakelite cameras that has the cheap Graf lens. It takes 127 film, has a vertical frame instead of square so you get 16 images on a roll. With two red viewing windows on the back, do I advance the film so that I just move the frame numbers from the first to the second window or is there some other trick to it? I ought to know this but don't. I'm running a 13 year old expired roll of film through it so if I get it wrong its not a costly loss.

 

[xya]

Yes, that's it. You run no. 1 through the first window and then trough the second and then no. 2 trough the first and so on. Good luck!

 

[shead]

Yes, that's it. You run no. 1 through the first window and then trough the second and then no. 2 trough the first and so on. Good luck!

Got it, thanks for confirming what was only an assumption for me. Now off to shoot some 13 year old film.

 

[Sirius Glass]

One window is for 12 negatives, the square format and 16 negatives the vertical format. The numbers will show up for the second negative sooner in the vertical format number. If it is not clear to you, ask for a better description.

 

[xya]

On the camera shown there is no ruby window for the square format, giving 12 photos of 4x4. It only has 2 windows in a line, reading the numbers of the 4x6.5 format, which originaly gives 8 photos. This camera makes 4x3 photos, so you get the double of it, 16 photos, by moving each number to the first and then to the second window. And then the next number to the first and then to the second window. And so on...

BTW: a ruby window for square format would be towards the bottom of the camera back.

 

[Ballinderry-Michael]

Yes, xya hat es ganz richtig (i.e. is dead right).

 

[xkaes]

No wonder it's named the "FAULTLESS" camera. It's impossible to make a mistake!!!