garret_evers

<p>Thank you for your answers, I will check as soon as possible for ruined gears. On the matter of the rewind button, I did press it before I rewound the film backwards. </p>

<p>Hello everyone,<br /><br />I'm new to this forum and I'm looking for help.</p> <p>I recently started in photography and chose the Minolta x300 (x370) as my first ever camera.</p> <p>I used it successfully for 2 film rolls, but on my third roll I messed up. When the roll was finished and it was time for it to be rewound, i turned the rewind lever backwards. There was an unprecedented amount of pressure, but for some reason I didn't pay much attention to it.<br /> When I noticed what I was doing I started to rewind it properly, but noticed that it wasn't working. After that I opened the back of the camera to check what is happening and in the process lost around 8 photos.</p> <p>At the time I though I just ruined one of the rolls, and put in a new one to continue shooting. When I advanced the film I noticed that the lever was too loose, I though I put it the film badly and opened the back to check. Upon opening the back I noticed that the film wasn't advanced. After trying again (closing the back and advancing the film) the same happened again. So I opened the back and advanced the film with the back open, I noticed that it only advanced when I held down the film, but after the film was properly advanced it continued fine without my interference.</p> <p>After taking a few photos and advancing the film there was a noticeable creak to the lever and even a resistance to it that wasn't there before. And before all this when advancing the film the rewind lever moved in correlation to the advance lever, but after my messing up it just stays in place.</p> <p>After this I haven't removed the film to check if everything is working properly as there are still a few shot left on it and I don't want to waste another piece of film (they are quite expensive in my country). When the film is done I will update on what happened.</p> <p>I hope that someone can inform me if I've broken my camera, or if there is something I can do to fix it.</p> <p>p.s.: Sorry for my English... And Thank You<br> <br /> Update 1: I forgot to mention this, there was nothing broken in the camera that I could see.</p>