Accidental Z7ii and 24-200mm Tests.

I think I was like 15, 16 when I read a magazine article that discussed when you load film, you should crank the rewind to tighten the film, such that when you advance the film, the rewind crank would rotate each time. That is how you know the film inside actually advances. That was in the mid 1970's, when the F2 was current. At the time I was using Minolta cameras. I continued to use that technique with my Nikkormat FT3, Nikon FE and FE2 throughout the 1980's, until I bought my N8008 (F801) in 1989. There was no more rewind crank.

I think I was like 15, 16 when I read a magazine article that discussed when you load film, you should crank the rewind to tighten the film, such that when you advance the film, the rewind crank would rotate each time.

I learned that technique from Herbert Keppler in his book The Asahi Pentax Way after I bought my first SLR, a Pentax Spotmatic, in 1968.

 

I learned that technique from Herbert Keppler in his book The Asahi Pentax Way after I bought my first SLR, a Pentax Spotmatic, in 1968.

 

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That was a little before my time, at least my time as an SLR user. My first SLR was a Minolta SRT-101 from the 1970's when I was a teen growing up in Asia. I believe I read about that technique in a Chinese photo magazine. I didn't move to the US until a few years later, and I started reading Herbert Keppler's column in the Modern Photography magazine, which was later on folded into Popular Photography.

Shun, your practice with Nikon film cameras was the same that I followed. I cannot remember how I learned the technique. However, I did see first hand the problem. My dad learned the hard way about loading 35mm film incorrectly in his Argus 35mm camera on a family car trip to California . He missed about two days of shooting before he realized that the film was not advancing. He was glad that I had been taking some pictures too! I was about 13 at the time. It was about 1955 when this happened.

I used that technique with my Nikon FM which I bought in 1979. One reason was to insure the film was loaded properly. The other reason which I seem to recall I read about in some magazine was that by turning the rewind crank you would tighten the film to ensure it was flat against the camera back and on the focal plane. Thinking about that now I am not sure how necessary that was since the camera had a mechanism to keep the film flat.

These are real life tests made by yours truly last week - all for your benefit. :D

 

Durability test:

Methodology: Mounted 24-200mm superzoom lens on Nikon Z7ii camera. Took lens cap off. On a Windjammer Atlantic cruise, placed camera + lens combo close to the edge of the upper cabin bed that was about 5' off of the floor. Let the camera and lens combo fall with a loud noise onto the wood floor which was reinforced with a steel hull. The drop was loud enough to alarm people from the next cabin to yell: "Are you all right"?

 

Picked up camera combo to visually examine for damages.

Result: Zero visual damage

 

Tested usability with normal photography procedure.

Result: Everything worked normally as before.

 

Verdict: Excellent! 5 Stars.

 

Memory-card test:

Methodology: CF Express card was pulled out of the camera and was not replaced. Continued to take photos. Later, be alarmed when discovering that the CF card slot was empty. Make a sigh of relief after seeing the SD card slot happened to be occupied.

 

Test card integrity by checking for all the images that one remembered shooting.

 

Verdict: Excellent! Thank goodness for dual card slots.

What?, no images from that test?:confused:

I used that technique with my Nikon FM which I bought in 1979. One reason was to insure the film was loaded properly. The other reason which I seem to recall I read about in some magazine was that by turning the rewind crank you would tighten the film to ensure it was flat against the camera back and on the focal plane. Thinking about that now I am not sure how necessary that was since the camera had a mechanism to keep the film flat.

It wasn't. All it did was put strain on the sprocket holes. Which often resulted in fog.

AFAIR the Pentax LX had narrow white vertical plastic rollers to feed the leader into. Very unusual from memory.