I've seen sprockets rip but only when the user rewound the film without
turning the little rewind button on the front of the camera first.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Pemberton" <philpem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 6:17 PM
Subject: [OM] OM10+Winder1 - film foulup
> Hi,
> I've just had a major problem with my OM10 and was wondering if anyone
> else has had a similar problem.
> I recently finished off a roll of 35mm B&W film (Jessops PAN400) and
> started rewinding it. I left the Winder on in case it matters. After
> attempting to wind the film back, it jammed. So I fired the shutter and
the
> winder kicked in. Oops. I turned the winder off and then started rewinding
> again. After rewinding the film about a quarter of the way, the film
> suddenly became very loose. At this point my heart sank - I thought the
film
> had misfed. So I did the stupidest thing possible and opened the back. Big
> oops. I think the 30-odd exposures I've taken are screwed, so unless
anyone
> can convince me otherwise, I won't bother cracking open the bottle of film
> developer. In the brief <1sec I had the camera open, I noticed the film
was
> the usual light grey colour, but it appeared that the sprocket section had
> separated - the area where the exposure is was gone. Here's a quick idea
of
> what it looked like:
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> I'm beginning to think the Winder has ripped the film out of the
canister -
> but I thought the Winder had a clutch to stop that happening, i.e. it
would
> wind on but the exposure indicator would not increment...
>
> Anyone care to shed some light on this problem?
> Is my camera/winder wrecked?
>
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