Nikon F100 "End" error at frame 30

pentaxuser said:

OK thanks. I wasn't implying your intentions were not of good intent, I was just curious about the F100's internal link that was connected to the problem

I don't have an F100 but in none of my cameras is there this link to frame counting and refusal to take the film further than frame 30

I can see why without a DX code a camera has to revert arbitrarily to say an ISO of 100 this rendering a problem with exposure if the owner doesn't set the speed dial correctly for the film but stopping the film at frame 30 just doesn't seem to be likely link. If it makes sense to Nikon to build in a mechanism to prevent wrong exposure by not allowing the film to be used then I wonder why it doesn't stop the film at the start

None of it makes much sense to me if the F100 does what you think it does

Can any other F100 user chime in here to help settle the matter?

pentaxuser

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Either the camera can sense that the film will not advance or some cameras like the Nikon N75 move the fill to advance to the end of the roll or 36 exposures when the film is loaded. No DX codes were damaged during the typing and posting of this post.

Three years later... Hoping for new insights to a previously report problem...

I came up against this issue with my recently acquired F100 today. It's about the fourth roll I've run through it. It was a roll of Rollei Infrared 400. Everything happened just as @Joseph Bell reported. It just kept telling me End when the roll was less than half done. It started doing it sporadically so I could get a few more shots off, then stubbornly displayed End, I was able to rewind it (in the camera) and I"ll see if anything looks odd structurally when I develop it.

Oh, and in reply to some of the earlier comments, the camera does not count exposures then stop. Neither did my N8008s. In both I can get 38 exposures on the 36 exposure roll and 26 exposures on a 24 exposure roll. The camera just advanaces this film until it can't. So it might just be the film got "stuck" somewhere/somehow.

Also, had fresh batteries in the MD-15 battery grip, so I had extra power.

@Joseph Bell, have you (or anyone else) seen this happen again???