Bronica ETRSI Darkside

[Bob F.]

Ensure you are not confusing the film back with the film holder. The film holder assembly fits inside the film back. You open the film back to get access to the film holder - you do not need to remove the back to do this - only open it. The entire film back should not be removable without the darkslide inserted, however you can still open the back and remove the film holder assembly to load and unload film (assuming it works the same way as my SQ-A).

The darkslide is used to seal the entire back from light so you can remove it from the camera and fit a different one in the middle of a roll - one might be loaded with B&W and the other with colour for example, or one could be a Polaroid back.

As Søren said above, as long as you did not open the back in mid-roll you are fine. If you only have one back, you do not need the darkslide but get one anyway because you will want more backs eventually ... If you did not get a manual, there is probably one online.

Cheers, Bob.

[jazzmechanic]

Thanks Bob,

I am able to remove the whole back. I ordered a darkslide and it should be in today!

Did not get to around to developing the film...beer drinkintg took priority.

Spencer

[Bob F.]

OK - it seems you definitely do have an interlock problem: probably not worth the vast number of beer tokens it would cost to have fixed... Good luck with the camera anyway...

Cheers, Bob.

P.S> if you do need a manual, one is here (http://www.tamron.com/about/manuals.asp) where I got one for my SQ-A...

[jazzmechanic]

Bob, does it mean the camera may be defective? Shutter seems to work fine.

[Bob F.]

No, it will be fine: it's just a mechanical link where a pin on the darkslide pushes on a slide to allow the back to be released - it does not impact on any other part of the camera: it's just a simple mechanical interlock. You'll see when you get the slide. My guess is that the bit that the pin pushes out the way is either broken or stuck in the "in" position.

One of my SQ-A backs has the same problem, but the other two are fine so it may be a basic design fault.


Bob.

[jazzmechanic]

Thanks again .....I feel much better now!