film magazine repair

<p>I have several magazines 120/220 and most have spacing problems. The 220 1st frame overlaps the 2nd and the 120 doesn't stop at #1 and then has a problem at #7 and only allows 10 frames. Most repairmen charge $100. for the repair and I was hoping to find a manual to walk me through this. I see two on ebay for 30 and 50 dollars and they only seem to be 3 copied pages. Any suggestions?</p>

<p>What brand of camera are your backs for?</p>

 

<p><strong>"</strong><a href="http://www.photo.net/medium-format-photography-forum/?category=Hasselblad"><strong>Hasselblad</strong></a><strong> > film magazine repair"</strong></p>

<p><em>Possibly a Hasselblad. :)</em></p>

<p>Sell the ones you have and get some more recent ones.<br>

Especially the ones from the early ninties are excellent.<br>

They do not yet have the dark slide holder but have been updated to the latest standard.<br>

With minimum investment you get some good working film backs.</p>

<p>Yet is is quite possible too to adjust the magazines you have (not hard, and i think Dick's manuals, though short, will tell you all you need to know).<br>

Magazines haven't changed much, so though replacing yours might solve the problem. But it also might not: buying used always holds the risk of getting ones that have, or will soon show, the same problems your ones already have.<br>

So there is no need to upgrade. No new technology to upgrade to. The old ones work as good, and the same way, as the new ones.</p>

<p>Hmmmm, he doesn't say for sure. I'm guessing they're maybe Bronica because after a while they mis-space pretty bad and they control the spacing not the body like the Hasselblad. Maybe he'll post the mystery for us.</p>

<p>It is posted in the Hasselblad section. I know such short repair manuals for Hasselblad.<br>

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, etc. ;-)</p>

<p>Honk, honk... perhaps a goose!</p>