CJG
Member
I was in the market for a new medium format camera and had a recent run of bad luck with old cameras. When Eric @ Rollie USA told me he had a new 6008af coming in I grabbed it. Seems the factory had found parts to build a new one. It wasn’t cheap, but was new and came from the factory with a warranty. I figured my camera reliability issues were over for a good decade.
Well I was getting inconsistent results at best both in terms of focus and exposure. In spite of using a wide range of cameras over my life I thought I was just getting used to a new camera that was very different from what I had been working with. I came to the conclusion it wasn’t me when I got a roll back that had widely varied exposures even for frames shot sequentially with the same exposure. This roll was carefully exposed and focused, on a tripod with mirror lock up. The lab said I was at least 8 stops over and they couldn’t get the colors right on the scans.
When i started doing some homework I could see when triggering the mirror lock up the lens wasn’t closing. I got a good picture of that I sent Eric.
Well the factory said they wanted their best tech to see this and he was out for a couple days. But this was over the Holidays and as far as I know we never got a response from the factory. We could of, but it was taking quite a while and Eric offered to send the lens to Key Camera for repair. Dave turned it around pretty quickly and all appears fine, though I haven’t put film through the camera yet.
Obviously this was more than disappointing on a new camera. I will say Eric could not have addressed this better and Dave really turned this around in very fast time.
Well I was getting inconsistent results at best both in terms of focus and exposure. In spite of using a wide range of cameras over my life I thought I was just getting used to a new camera that was very different from what I had been working with. I came to the conclusion it wasn’t me when I got a roll back that had widely varied exposures even for frames shot sequentially with the same exposure. This roll was carefully exposed and focused, on a tripod with mirror lock up. The lab said I was at least 8 stops over and they couldn’t get the colors right on the scans.
When i started doing some homework I could see when triggering the mirror lock up the lens wasn’t closing. I got a good picture of that I sent Eric.
Well the factory said they wanted their best tech to see this and he was out for a couple days. But this was over the Holidays and as far as I know we never got a response from the factory. We could of, but it was taking quite a while and Eric offered to send the lens to Key Camera for repair. Dave turned it around pretty quickly and all appears fine, though I haven’t put film through the camera yet.
Obviously this was more than disappointing on a new camera. I will say Eric could not have addressed this better and Dave really turned this around in very fast time.