marilyn_gaskin

<p>WD40 did the trick, thank God I had some laying around!</p> <p>Thank you two for your help, I really wasn't looking forward to returning this camera in poor shape. </p>

<p>Hello all-<br> I'm relatively new to medium format shooting, I am using a Yashica Mat 124G for a photography class I am taking at my college. I loaded a roll of film earlier today, shut and latched the loading door, and things seemed to be going well at first. Shot the first exposure, and while trying to use the crank to advance the film the crank became stuck. <br> Figured the film was caught up somewhere so I went to open up the back door to try to straighten it out or just reload, but the Open-Close dial gets stuck halfway between close and open. The dial will not budge any further (although will dial back down to a closed position, just not towards open) and I can therefore not get the door open.<br> The lower spool locking knob is slightly elevated, and will not rest flat like the upper one does. This definitely makes me think the film spool is not properly loaded, and has jammed itself in a way that the opening mechanism can not move. :( <br> Any one have any experience with this, or thoughts on the matter? </p> <p>Thanks so much.</p>